PAPER

WORKS ON PAPER

Dissecting a space around me. With the use of photographic imagery to capture a sense of time & place. With this information a new thinking evolves. Reassembling the images to create a stitched composition following shape and form constructed from paper & thread.

Dreamscapes: Drawing shapes across the room.

The piece hovers, mid-flow, over the ground & seemingly buffets against the walls it is captured within. To ground it thin lines of thread anchor and constrain it to wall and floor. The importance of the repetitiveness of the stitch – over & over – as life, the days slipping by.

Lisa Traxler 2011

‘She makes stitched collages that intermix found images or archive material with drawing and painting, using the lyrical active-reflective-reactive compositional method. A major series of Memory Vessels and Dreamscapes have been produced. These are made from paper (or paper objects) and red thread and they solve the composition in a subtly different way from the paintings and collages. Found imagery is collated, collaged and reprographically manipulated. It is also, sometimes, deformed into a three-dimensional shape. The manipulated imagery on these paper constructions form the basis for ‘line drawings’ made from stitched rows that follow their contours. Often the red thread is seen from the reverse side, or makes a linear foray out into the space in which the works are installed, anchoring them to a site-specific location.’

© Jonathan Parsons
(Full essay 'Space, Lived: The Art of Lisa Traxler' by Jonathan Parsons in the book ‘Lives of Spaces’ a publication about the artist and her work. Available from February 2012).