STATEMENT OF WORK

      My work blurs the line between photography, drawing and painting to create a fluid space where all these elements interact- some barely touching, some floating unmoored, others overlapping creating new more ambiguous imagery in the process. My source material is drawn from the natural world always within the perimeters of my home. It is an on-going balancing act within this fluid space to evoke both a harmonious relationship and a sense of tension between the representational nature of photography and the ambiguity of non-objective painting.

     This notion of harmony and tension begin to play out within my work where hyper close-up photographic images of dead vegetation may sit side by side lush flowers and feathers tangle within rock-like formations or the found color in a photographic image comes together with rich pigments I have carefully mixed.                                                                                                                                       Crucial within my process involves deconstructing this imagery to a point where it is almost indiscernible. This involves a process of cutting,  re-assembling and collaging but always holding on to a degree of that which is knowable- forever balancing recognition with ambiguity.  I also strive for this tension/harmony balance vis a vis the sheer abundance of imagery I pack into my forms and the vast amount of negative space I allow around them as a counterweight.

The work should reveal itself slowly for the viewer and be a peaceful place to observe, while raising questions in regard to the tangle of differing forms interacting in each piece.  

Lisa McCutcheon