\Fault/LINES
Nico Lund
Artist Statement:
\Fault/LINES
/fôlt/ /līn//z/
plural. Noun- 1.interruptions of confidence or the perception of unattractive or unsatisfactory features. 2. causes of disruptions, disconnection or misfortunes. 3. critiques or communications involving inadequacies or mistakes. 2. fractures or discontinuities in which there has been significant displacements or mass movement.
Disruptions happen. It’s in the fissures, fractures and reverberations of unpredictable circumstances that there can be a tremendous opportunity for transformation.
\Inter/RUPT
This work grows from the uncomfortable places of feeling interrupted, disconnected and often displaced as a result of complex trauma in childhood and beyond. This body of work is a years-long meditation into my own personal evolution and growth as a daughter, artist, partner, mother and friend. In finding the scars and fissures in my own self-confidence through radical self-acceptance, I am able to acknowledge how the perception of personal faults & inadequacy in my life has impacted my capacity for growth and the ability to connect to greater understanding of a complicated and changing world.
\Re/CONNECT
Underlying the concept for \Fault/LINES are complicated narratives that have been passed down through generations. By connecting the stories I’ve learned to invent about myself and others, I am working to unearth the disconnections, distortions and dis-ease and then reassemble the pieces back into a reimagined landscape; an alchemy of self by reconnecting the past, present and future together to uncover new truths.
\Inter/SECT
Using intentional layers of colors, texture, prose, fragments of poetry, lines of text, and altered objects, I am able to explore the intersections in my human experience. It is through creative expression that I believe suffering can be transmuted and repurposed into something new.
\Fault/LINES is a container to hold space to meditate on one’s own ability to sit with discomfort. While visiting this exhibit, I invite you to consider: Where do your lines interrupt? How do you reconnect? Where do you intersect?
Artist Bio: Always in awe of the ocean, dramatic movements of clouds and the inescapable humbling power of nature, her work is a meditation into the unpredictability and transience of the human experience. Her studio practice includes painting, print arts, book arts, music and video production. In addition to \Fault/LINES, she has a forthcoming book of prose and illustration titled, Drawing Clouds, coming out later this year with Bored Wolves Publishing.
Originally from a coastal town in central California, she went on to live in the Pacific Northwest before relocating to Lexington, Kentucky in 2021. Nico received her Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Visual Art from the University of Washington and has been developing, showing and refining her multidisciplinary practice for over twenty years. She often spends time lost in thought on nature walks with her dog, on long phone calls to her kid away-at-college and in never-ending existential conversations with her husband.
Find links to Nico Lund at bio.site/nicolund
\Fault/LINES
/fôlt/ /līn//z/
plural. Noun- 1.interruptions of confidence or the perception of unattractive or unsatisfactory features. 2. causes of disruptions, disconnection or misfortunes. 3. critiques or communications involving inadequacies or mistakes. 2. fractures or discontinuities in which there has been significant displacements or mass movement.
Disruptions happen. It’s in the fissures, fractures and reverberations of unpredictable circumstances that there can be a tremendous opportunity for transformation.
\Inter/RUPT
This work grows from the uncomfortable places of feeling interrupted, disconnected and often displaced as a result of complex trauma in childhood and beyond. This body of work is a years-long meditation into my own personal evolution and growth as a daughter, artist, partner, mother and friend. In finding the scars and fissures in my own self-confidence through radical self-acceptance, I am able to acknowledge how the perception of personal faults & inadequacy in my life has impacted my capacity for growth and the ability to connect to greater understanding of a complicated and changing world.
\Re/CONNECT
Underlying the concept for \Fault/LINES are complicated narratives that have been passed down through generations. By connecting the stories I’ve learned to invent about myself and others, I am working to unearth the disconnections, distortions and dis-ease and then reassemble the pieces back into a reimagined landscape; an alchemy of self by reconnecting the past, present and future together to uncover new truths.
\Inter/SECT
Using intentional layers of colors, texture, prose, fragments of poetry, lines of text, and altered objects, I am able to explore the intersections in my human experience. It is through creative expression that I believe suffering can be transmuted and repurposed into something new.
\Fault/LINES is a container to hold space to meditate on one’s own ability to sit with discomfort. While visiting this exhibit, I invite you to consider: Where do your lines interrupt? How do you reconnect? Where do you intersect?
Artist Bio: Always in awe of the ocean, dramatic movements of clouds and the inescapable humbling power of nature, her work is a meditation into the unpredictability and transience of the human experience. Her studio practice includes painting, print arts, book arts, music and video production. In addition to \Fault/LINES, she has a forthcoming book of prose and illustration titled, Drawing Clouds, coming out later this year with Bored Wolves Publishing.
Originally from a coastal town in central California, she went on to live in the Pacific Northwest before relocating to Lexington, Kentucky in 2021. Nico received her Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Visual Art from the University of Washington and has been developing, showing and refining her multidisciplinary practice for over twenty years. She often spends time lost in thought on nature walks with her dog, on long phone calls to her kid away-at-college and in never-ending existential conversations with her husband.
Find links to Nico Lund at bio.site/nicolund
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