ART + DESIGN SENIOR EXHIBITION
Leigh Palmer
BFA Printmaking
Artist Website: ltpalart.squarespace.com Instagram: @l.t.palart
ARTIST STATEMENT: Foundations is an exploration of the shattering effects anxiety has in a disfunctional or unsafe environment. When home lacks the feeling of comfort and security it can evoke shattering feelings of panic, restlessness, and estrangement.
The work expresses the foundation of home through the use of a blueprint. The blueprint represents the comfort found in a safe environment and the glass shards represent the uncomfortable and broken spaces that originate from dysfunction. At a young age my family made a contrasting move from one house to another that severed my concept of home. The street numbers of the two houses that I grew up in can be found scattered throughout the composition. The work as a whole strives to piece together the fragments lost in order to rebuild my foundation of home.