Emilee Lord
Build, Layer, Place, Bury, Press, Pull, Mark, Wash

Abstracted place or landscape combined with references to gesture, momentum, timing and sound quality create a surface caught in the heave between silence and great noise.

Plaster, Thread, Ink, Charcoal, Silk, Linen, Wool, Water

Plains of stillness and disquiet create an encounter with the possibility of an aesthetic relationship between beauty and pain.

Touch, Tarry, Face, Lose, Remark, Forgive, Violate, Break

Ideas find their process and initiate the making of the work as active metaphor. The material enters this call and response; they cannot be separated.

Tell the Truth. Seduce the Material. Trust your Hands.