Noel Elias (b. 1998 Virginia) is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Utilizing organic matter and discarded materials, her sculptures explore memory and the longing for home. She is interested in the use of plants to heal across cultures, how their dislocation and migration relates to our own and their ability to help us understand grief through their transient nature. She is inspired by the garden as a symbol of hope and strength through its continual process of growth through decay. From a tub held together by cabbage, to a pair of crutches made of soil, the material metaphors of her sculptures create stories to help understand the relationships we have to the people and places that surround us.