Elana Hagler writes about the work of Philadelphia painter Scott Noel.

Hagler, who was Noel's student, writes that "Scott always encouraged in me a love for the wholeness of perception, I would even say the wholeness of existence, accepting even that which is problematic, in the world and in myself, and integrating it and shaping it to try to produce an artwork which is so much more than a mimetic image, but under the best of circumstances becomes a fictionalized embodiment of reality that embraces a more complicated beauty and somehow, deep inside, rings true."