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Bridging all aspects of my life, my art practice is a game of balancing order and chaos. Rooted in an exploration of altering and arranging materials, I focus on how past experiences can distort, filter, and layer with future expectations to give rise to our perception of the present. My works are compositions of harmonic and discordant moments within a field of abstract colors and forms. In the same way that a fractal builds with recursive form, I create an environment for my subconscious to process, organize and make sense of itself. I look to visualize the patterns, structures, and flows that echo from the cosmos to the quantum. My process mimics natural construction by organizing and layering elements in rhizomatic patterns, web-like structures and clusters to illustrate the functions of growth and decay.
Like blueprints or puzzles, I practice composing found objects into sculptures and installations through repetition, collection, and progression. Primarily working with materials that are deemed essentially worthless, I gather thrifted items, antiques, low craft surplus, and natural refuse like sticks and stones. Familiar objects such as paint, yarn, beads and discarded scraps cluster and give rise to unexpectedly organic forms. The layers I build create a dimensional richness and vibrant life back to age-worn objects.
Experimentation with balance, rhythm, and vibrant color offers me a place to play and practice healing my relationships, both internal and external. With mindful repetition, I ritualize a practice of forming connections with more openness and compassion; looking to allow the objects to speak and place themselves. I focus on the elevation of not only the unwanted objects that I source but also, in doing so, readopt my abjected self and learn to love more deeply the fissures in those I hold most dear.
From small scale works to sprawling and immersive installations, I welcome visitors to similarly explore their emotional relationship to objects, texture and color. I group and transform intentionally curated objects such that the viewer might connect their own memories and experiences in their understanding of the work. In these seemingly incidental connections, I offer a suspension from the present moment in which to reflect on whatever arises. I seek to create work that is as multifaceted as the audience that engages it: a universal metaphor that allows each of us to contemplate how our individual and inter-connected realities manifest.
Lola Doe
1014d03@gmail.com