Leigh Anne Lester
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Deviant Pollination
graphite and color pencil on two layers of drafting film, 2014, 29 x 24 inches
- Deviant Pollination
graphite and color pencil on two layers of drafting film, 2014, 29 x 24 inches
- Amalgamate Dispersion
graphite and color pencil on drafting film, 2014, 36 x 48 inches
- hand cut drafting fim, paint colors taken from logo or websites of GMO business', magnets, light, shadows, 2014
">Unrestrained Creep
hand cut drafting fim, paint colors taken from logo or websites of GMO business', magnets, light, shadows, 2014
- hand cut drafting fim, paint colors taken from logo or websites of GMO business', magnets, light, shadows, 2014
">Unrestrained Creep- detail
hand cut drafting fim, paint colors taken from logo or websites of GMO business', magnets, light, shadows, 2014
- hand cut drafting fim, paint colors taken from logo or websites of GMO business', magnets, light, shadows, 2014
">Installation Shot of Unrestrained Creep
hand cut drafting fim, paint colors taken from logo or websites of GMO business', magnets, light, shadows, 2014
- Mutable Desendents
2014, graphite and colored pencil on drafting film, 27 x 22 inches
- 2014, graphite and colored pencil on drafting film, 25 x 21 inches
">Elastic Ramifications
2014, graphite and colored pencil on drafting film, 25 x 21 inches
- 2014, graphite and colored pencil on drafting film, 25 x 21 inches
">Elastic Ramifications- detail
2014, graphite and colored pencil on drafting film, 25 x 21 inches
- 2014, graphite and colored pencil on 2 layers of drafting film, 25 x 23 inches
">Oblique Inception
2014, graphite and colored pencil on 2 layers of drafting film, 25 x 23 inches
- 2014, graphite and colored pencil on drafting film, 27.5 x 25.5 inches
">Naturalized Fiction
2014, graphite and colored pencil on drafting film, 27.5 x 25.5 inches
- 2013, hand cut drafting film, plexi-glass, magnets, hand cut vinyl adhesive, light and shadow, 32 x 8 x 15 feet
">Cultivated Divergence Installation shot, outside view
2013, hand cut drafting film, plexi-glass, magnets, hand cut vinyl adhesive, light and shadow, 32 x 8 x 15 feet
- 2013, hand cut drafting film, plexi-glass, magnets, hand cut vinyl adhesive, light and shadow, 32 x 8 x 15 feet
">Cultivated Divergence Inside shot
2013, hand cut drafting film, plexi-glass, magnets, hand cut vinyl adhesive, light and shadow, 32 x 8 x 15 feet
- 2013, hand cut drafting film, plexi-glass, magnets, hand cut vinyl adhesive, light and shadow, 32 x 8 x 15 feet
">Cultivated Divergence - detail
2013, hand cut drafting film, plexi-glass, magnets, hand cut vinyl adhesive, light and shadow, 32 x 8 x 15 feet
- This plant is the genesis of the most recent body of work of drawings.
2014, graphite and colored pencil on 2 layers of drafting film, 43 x 35 inche
">Mutant Generate
This plant is the genesis of the most recent body of work of drawings.
2014, graphite and colored pencil on 2 layers of drafting film, 43 x 35 inche
- 2012, color pencil on drafting film, 12 x 12 inches
">Aspect Potential
2012, color pencil on drafting film, 12 x 12 inches
- color pencil and graphite on two layers of drafting film, 2012
">Infinite Morphology
color pencil and graphite on two layers of drafting film, 2012
- hand cut drafting film installed in a pre existing office wall paper in abandoned building, light, shadow,
invisible thread, 2011
">Infiltration- site specific installation
hand cut drafting film installed in a pre existing office wall paper in abandoned building, light, shadow,
invisible thread, 2011
- hand cut drafting film installed in a pre existing office wall paper in abandoned building, light, shadow,
invisible thread, 2011
">Infiltration Detail
hand cut drafting film installed in a pre existing office wall paper in abandoned building, light, shadow,
invisible thread, 2011
- graphite and color pencil on drafting film, 2014
">Marker 1.5
graphite and color pencil on drafting film, 2014
- graphite and color pencil on drafting film, 2014
">Marker 1.3
graphite and color pencil on drafting film, 2014
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My work addresses the place between the genesis of genetic modification and its possible aftereffects. Genetic modification offers humans the resources and means to change the composition of species from the microscopic level to the macroscopic system; to change the composition of a species by deleting or adding an attribute to suit our own desires. But, what is disposable? Too often we don’t have a clear view of what the ramifications will be for a plant that has been altered or the species that depend upon it for survival. The new outcome of this potentiality can capsize a natural balance or create a new species for that balance. This possibility is as exciting as it is frightening. There is beauty in the unknown.Beauty is an important tool in my work to lure and entice the viewer. Through the natural appeal of the plants, the graceful line of the drawings, the luminosity of the vinyl, the luxurious surface of the silk embroidery, the viewer is asked to consider the paradox that beauty is really a balance of order/control with abandon/uncertainty.In my drawings, I utilize historical botanicals on layers of semi-transparent drafting film with a botanical drawn on each layer. The transparency of the drafting film allows the line of each image to optically blend with the next layer, generating a flux between the different components of each of the individual plants. Elements of each of the species mix and tangle their visual attributes intermingling disparate species of flora much like a palimpsest with divergent layers and characteristics perceptible beneath the surface. I am currently sourcing from these drawings, seeing them as parent plants that create future generations. The genesis plants are put through a program that distills the imagery into color cells that vaguely reference the former plant images. These floating cells are then intermingled visually with a graphite drawing of a separate distorted color drained offspring plant, implying a cellular, morphological struggle for resolution.With this new “Frankenstein “ flora I bring into play a sense of the possible, whether good or bad. I want viewers to think of it as a premonition of the consequences of genetic modification.
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grayDUCK Gallery
David Shelton Gallery
cactus bra SPACE
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