Leslie Pierce

Artist Statement

I am an artist motivated by contemporary culture and the rapid pace at which we absorb information and images. The "​Code Defied" series focuses on how visual information hits our retinas and how images are reduced, rearranged, and interpreted by thought. If something is left out of a story or an image, our brains automatically fill in the rest. This filling-in-the-gaps-response is an interesting area to think about visually, as in how each person perceives images differently, so too is the way we fill in the gaps and negative spaces.

While experimenting with abstracting figures with contrasts of flat and modeled areas, my printer ran out of ink and left striations across the paper. Most people would have tossed it out, however, I felt a surge of inspiration. Images became both abstract and figurative and reflected fast-paced, technology-driven, and a fragmented world that continues as mysterious, and captivating.

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