Body Green Spiral
Oxide Placement
Men in a Row Flowered
Teresa Lakier
I relate to the canvas by composing landscapes of irrealities. Rooted in emotional ties, and transposed by interchanging the concepts of design, I attempt to create a meaningful composition for the eye. The purpose being that the piece becomes a story, and the story is told in an abstract, yet emotional manner. Each story of the irreal is given a sense of realism by my use of abstraction.
I use abstraction to create an organic image. Character, urban but organic, becomes a playground of representation, suggesting the theme of the series/ piece. The placement of each image within the background changes the entirety of the work. From my experience, character, obvious or underlying, embodies the vision and circumstance of each person, or situation. I express this dialogue of character with images, not words.
I superimpose images that thought can distill, complete, reinvent, or canonize using the image to explain what is seen in a kind of narrative.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust
Meaning is found through figurative imagery and/or other conceptual devices adding to the work. The environment of the image is telling. It helps define what is in front of you.
With each piece, my ideas grow. Conceptually, there are many intertwining ways in which these images can be connected. My work is an exploration of such a journey, a journey that is ongoing and reinvents itself through constant change.
My work has an amorphous form and function; encompasses an evocative use of light, shape, and form; and each composition is different depending on the piece and its message. I visually identify with a space and its components through the relationship of the piece to the design. My pieces embrace the mundane, the intellectual experience, and the passions of my life.