Alex A. Jones

Alex A. Jones is a writer currently based in Brooklyn. Her project “Art and Ecology in the Third Millennium” is supported by the the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Can we learn to perceive as other beings do? Can we even learn to perceive other beings at all—not as objects of knowledge, but emissaries of worlds beyond our grasp? In The Dreams of Small Animals, Ash Eliza Williams probes metaphysical boundaries in paintings that channel the sensory perceptions of flowers, frogs, bugs, and birds. Williams uses multi-panel compositions that recall the sequential logic of a storyboard, but rather than translating the nonhuman into a legible narrative, they render their subjects more mystical in works where the boundaries between subject and environment become porous, vibrational.

Installation view: Ash Eliza Williams, The Dreams of Small Animals, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ, 2025. Courtesy ArtYard. Photo: Paul Warchol.

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