“The narrative of the angel and his love for a demon is a common thread throughout, and is presented here as an embracing of individuality and freedom in the face of repression. This culminates in a series of paintings charting the often painful, eternally human acceptance of one's own identity – featuring many portraits of real life people and a self-portrait of Kowalczyk himself - and is crowned by a particularly affecting triptych. Untitled, the paintings on the left and the right show the angel longingly staring at the demon, with a mirror representation on the far side; in the centrefold, the two together, triumphant and en-coiled, markedly sexual in their postures, defiant and aggressive. In these divided times, such a triumphant expression of adoration is a liberating one.”

The exhibition 'Angel in the Out!House' will be shown at the Barkley Contemporary Art Gallery until August 12th.

I read such surpassing brightness by Handful_of_Silence a few days ago - in which Crowley stumbles upon a bunch of literature and art spanning two millenia about Aziraphale being the patron saint of queer longing  - and I just could not resist giving the painting from the art exhibition they visit a go!! It’s supposed to be a triptych but I don’t think I’ll have the time/energy to do the other two but! Here’s a suggestion of what the main one might look like at least, even if it’s much more 1920s and Fauvist/Expressionist than the artist specified in the fic but idk I just wanted to catch some of the emotion.