Parallel Eudaimonia - Micael Elrod & Brittany Noriega

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Eudaimonia is the ancient Greek concept of the highest human good; not fleeting happiness, but a deep and abiding flourishing that’s achieved through purpose, virtue, and the fulfillment of one's potential.

We are two friends who parallel each other through cosmic connection, and whose artwork also contains parallels and similar themes of matriarchal power structures, the sacred feminine, and earthly devotion.

While Brittany's work often explores these themes through an academic and analytical lens, Micael takes a more spiritual approach. These differing viewpoints of the same themes reflect our lives and our artwork, creating complementary expressions of a shared vision - two parallel paths toward the same flourishing.

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Micael Elrod is an experimental textile artist and mother in Kansas City, Kansas. Her creative and spiritual practices are intrinsically linked, her process a ritual. She explores matrilineal connections and the subconscious, interpreting them into visual representations founded on the symbolism of ancient matriarchal reverence, plants and animals. Micael tries to bring a whimsical morbidity to her work, inspired by the macabre opulence of the Catholic Church and religious iconography of her upbringing. She has been a full time artist since 2024.

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Brittany Noriega is a Kansas City-based artist working primarily in graphite and charcoal at a monumental scale. A full-time artist since 2015, her work is deeply informed by her academic background in the social sciences and psychology — disciplines that shape how she observes power, identity, and the human condition. She is currently completing her MA in Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University, where her studies continue to deepen the analytical framework she brings to her practice.