The many talents of Lisa Simon
I believe an artist’s role is that of communicator, and this is what I would like to communicate: the sublimity of smallness, melancholic nurture of sadness and warmth, the sweetness of a heavenward gaze, the unease of displacement and contemplation of the sublime. I relish adornment, preciousness, metaphoric figuration and open-ended narrative play. In this body of work I examine simple interactions - individual character's moments of intimacy, aggression, or prayer.
Process-wise, everything I make now is constructed during the in-between-times. As a mother and a teacher I have had to alter my working methods. Therefore, my creative process is mobile. I fabricate bits and pieces in no one specific place -the kitchen table, the break-room, the park - while trying to balance the responsibilities of life. At night when everyone is asleep, I go to the studio and assemble all these bits and pieces into larger wholes. I never feel completely in control of the finished result but rather I find myself at the service of hope and serendipity.
Selected works can be see here:
WORKS
Process-wise, everything I make now is constructed during the in-between-times. As a mother and a teacher I have had to alter my working methods. Therefore, my creative process is mobile. I fabricate bits and pieces in no one specific place -the kitchen table, the break-room, the park - while trying to balance the responsibilities of life. At night when everyone is asleep, I go to the studio and assemble all these bits and pieces into larger wholes. I never feel completely in control of the finished result but rather I find myself at the service of hope and serendipity.
Selected works can be see here:
WORKS
