Monica Bonvicini's *No Angels* (2011) is a raw and evocative work combining paper collage, tempera, ash, and coffee on paper, blending unconventional materials to create a layered, textured surface charged with tension. The use of ash and coffee alongside traditional media lends the piece an organic, almost residual quality, as if the work bears the traces of lived experience and consumption. True to Bonvicini's practice, the work engages themes of power, the body, and social constructs, subverting notions of purity or transcendence suggested by its provocative title.