Laurel Farrin
I express experiences of living through visual language that is constructed and deconstructed in an ongoing process of change. The attempt throws my work into a spiraling process of layered ambiguities, slipping images and a loss of order or control. For me, this emptying out is not a nihilistic action, but rather an embraceable one. An interest in the paradox of being and becoming has always existed at the heart of my work. I’ve sought after an intuitive understanding of the “betweeness” of things in the constant process of formation when both immanence and transcendence tumble within matter and spirit; spirit meaning breath, the bellows of expiration and inhalation firing our lives.
Physical presence hosts an ephemeral life of cognition, thought and feeling. In the context of world, our existence drifts through entering and leaving, silence and voice. My work is a meditation on the nature of these interactions -- the relations between the forces of the world and us. These abstract forces- gravitational, chemical, electrical, magnetic, and nuclear - construct our own layered selves, and play themselves out in embraces full of surprise, humor and pathos.
