Aryel René Jackson (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator whose practice engages soil, compost, fabric, and residue as responsive materials. Their work moves across printmaking, textiles, installation, performance, and moving image to explore transformation, self-expression, and the shifting identities of organic matter. 

Jackson’s current work uses soil-based printmaking and quilting to consider the relationship between interior and exterior life. Through monotype, collagraphy, silkscreen, mud dyeing, embroidery, and stitched fabric, they move soil-based materials between surface, body, image, and cloth. Compost and soil are collaborators that register pressure, accumulation, transformation, and renewal. 

Drawing from quilting as a Black knowledge system of care, repetition, repair, and survival, Jackson connects housework and fieldwork as forms of activating memory and ecological transmission. Their recent “Compost”, “Compost Ghost”, “Compost Matrix”, and “Quarter Square” works transform waste and matter into prints and textiles that hold trace, tension, and the possibility of regeneration.