YOU ARE INVITED to a reception on March 20, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm at the Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. Lena's work will be on display in the 50th International Exhibition of the San Diego Art Institute until May 15, 2009. Please stop by and have a look!
Lena says: "This particular work (called "Idaho Farm Memories") is an assemblage of approximately 20 photographs from four different locations shot on Hwy 75 between Shoshone and Sun Valley, Idaho. This area is rich in vernacular architecture related to the farming industry that once thrived in this region. All of these structures have been abandoned, and are now in an advanced state of deterioration. I predict that within 3 - 7 years most will have collapsed and will be forever gone as landmarks of this region. In this particular photomontage I transferred more than 80 fragments from my photographic archive of this region to create this work. The barns, silos, fence segments, animals and farm implements were each individually transferred and inserted into the final composition using a digital imaging software program."
This work is the start of a new series of photomontages by Lena that mirrors the workings of the subconscious mind in the dream state. The subconscious mind stores a life time of memories and then pulls fragments from this memory bank to create imaginative and vivid dreams while we sleep. Mirroring this process, Lena transfers fragments from her extensive archive of digital photographs and creates entirely new realities, or dreams, that contain memories of the places she has photographed.
See Lena's photos online at the Museum of the Living Artist, San Diego Art Institute website
March 14, 2009
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