Lisa Walcott

Category: ideas

  • Animated Gif!

    Obviously I really like loops/repetition. The animated gif has grabbed my attention. Perhaps there will be a piece or at least a website element that includes one. I ran across this while google image browsing for a piece I want to make: Great, huh?

  • My "To Read" List

    I have been trying to compile a list of ideas, subjects, artists…etc. to look at as I try to focus my thoughts toward a thesis project. As always I’m interested in a very wide array and resist categorizing as I find that boring. Defined = Boring (to me) Anyway, here is what I have come…

  • Sisyphus

    In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king punished by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down. The endless labor of my art work that repeats in a small loop (Bless You, Pull Strings) relates to the Greek myth. I like to think about the work…

  • Ludic

    : playful in an aimless way

  • Gestural Objects

    (Artist Statement in progress…as always) “Large things tend to be unwieldy, clumsy, crude; smallness is the realm of elegance and grace.” -Steven Millhauser Smallness lends itself to being sweet and modest. It is not clouded by grandeur or overarching themes. It is simply what it is, but by being so poignant it is able to…

  • automatism

    I had a great converstation in my studio yesterday with our Critic in Residence, Lane Relyea. He was really good at deducing and understanding my work as a whole (not sculpture vs. drawing vs. photography). He pointed out surrealist tendencies that I have. Almost everything is based on real experience, but it is shifted in…

  • Simultaneous Peripheral Observation

    In the space between tactility and language the beautiful and unassuming linger. They exist in the peripheral, weaving in and out of clarity, difficult to get a clear handle on, resistant to words. There is room for the mind to guess and imagine. With a skepticism in the ability of language to contain our bodily…

  • couch

    (what’s in there?)

  • Picture 1…

    There are many ways that I document my thought processes. I have my physical sketchbook, this work journal, sound recording on my phone (mostly while driving), snapshots and screenshots. There is an ongoing digital folder of anything and everything that might trigger an idea from the web. Here is the collection of February 2009-present…

  • The Kitchen Table Drawings

    It took me quite awhile to realize that my work has a trend of domesticity that runs through it. It’s hard to find overarching themes, so I am glad to have identified one. At the moment I don’t have any photo’s of the actual drawings I have been making at the kitchen table, but Rob…

  • Panes

    As I acclimate to our new living quarters, I impulsively took some pictures of the morning light shining through the windows. As I was uploading them, I noticed a theme. I have done this often in the places where I live as the below history of images shows. The translucent but impenetrable properties of the…

  • The Decisive Moment

    “Photography is not like painting,” Cartier-Bresson told the Washington Post in 1957. “There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment…

  • hinged

    Connects while allowing distance. Dependent. Moves. My knee is a hinge. Door, cupboard. All of the opening and closing is because of the hinge.

  • Out of focus

    This summer has been a complete blur so far! Rob and I have been living out of our photography studio as we finish our basement apartment. We have been working very hard doing what we love to do: working with people and taking pictures. No complaints there…except that once again, art making has taken a…

  • Ghosts

    I’ve written about the subject of the slightly obscured quite a bit under the title of intangibility or “in between”. It’s just such a beautiful small notion for me to imagine the things that are completely transitional and unable to be contained. On one hand it seems inconsequential, but applied to a larger view of…

  • About my work formally, stylistically and linguistically

    Intangibility Weaving in and out of clarity. Existent, but difficult to get a clear handle on. Fog does this, memory does this, veils do this. It’s more beautiful to leave room for the mind to guess and imagine than to be completely clear. There is a peak where ambiguity and clarity mingle perfectly. Perception What…

  • Pieces with history

    Pull String or LightWeight (cut paper and sting) A sketch/piece with paneling fragments from our Holland home Inspired by my childhood play…a new way of working for me

  • the accursed items

    by J. Robert Lennon A bottle of pain reliever, brought along on a business trip, that proves, at the moment it is most needed, to be filled not with pain reliever, but with buttons. Sneakers hanging from the power line, with one half of a boy’s broken glasses stuffed into each toe. A Minnie Mouse…

  • New Image, Old Sculpture

    A new combination. Photo: 22×33 inches

  • compression

    My work is visually inspired by materiality and the demotic; and conceptually inspired by intangibility, entropy and personal experiences. It explores the spaces that exist in between one thing and another that tends to go unnoticed. Whether it is between one page and the next or one definition and another, there is an intangible beauty…

  • There's something I like in here.

    I like the lack of color in this color image. I like the way the exposure from each photo comes together. I like the vertical flow. I like the mundane nature of the subject matter. I like how there is tension between electricity and water.

  • Fuzzzzz

    I spent this past week out of my studio and in our installation space in the sculpture department at Cranbrook since my biggest challenge lately has been after I’ve made my objects or images knowing what to do with them! It was great to see everything I had made come out from under the shelves…

  • Waiting

    Waiting is a transitional state that I often find myself in and tend to be quite impatient with. Whether it’s waiting for Rob to head out the door (although I’m pretty sure he waits for me more than I wait for him), waiting for a balloon sculpture to deflate since my prodding only messes up…

  • something new and moving

    Check out my first animation and my new you tube account! I had to spell my last name with 3 t’s to make the account legit because apparently there’s another Lisa Walcott or at least lisawalcott out there. Another case for using “Worpel” perhaps. (I am figuring out the quality…etc.)

  • saturation

    Saturation as a metaphor caught my interest today as I listened to election coverage. It was quoted numerous times in relation to the media (i.e. “our media saturated culture”). I began to wonder if you could relate the idea of media saturation with color saturation? Not sure.

  • Exploring Themes

    Transitional, Liminal, Intangible If you like something, you usually want to have it, hold it, put it in your pocket. This is a problem for me, since the very thing I like is “intangibility”. Relationships. Decomposition. Longing. Masked. Dusk. Fog. They exist in between. In between me and you, this and that, absence and presence,…

  • punctuate

    NOTES (just for me): punctuation punctuate puncture punctus mark or divide to make the meaning clear. to interrupt at intervals: to give emphasis or force to; deriv. of L pūnctus a pricking; see punctual]