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.