Lesley Dill
The Forest, 2019
Hand-cut paper collage, ink, on Japanese silk tissue paper
14 x 11 inches
17 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches framed
17 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches framed
Artist Statement Over the years in working with the language of writers Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman, I came to wonder when did they write? What was happening...
Artist Statement
Over the years in working with the language of writers Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman, I came to wonder when did they write? What was happening in the country when they wrote? And who were their forebears in voice and context? Walt Whitman once wrote “I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact miracles”. I want to honor them, these poets, speakers, religious visionaries, and abolitionists.
Over the years in working with the language of writers Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman, I came to wonder when did they write? What was happening in the country when they wrote? And who were their forebears in voice and context? Walt Whitman once wrote “I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact miracles”. I want to honor them, these poets, speakers, religious visionaries, and abolitionists.
Exhibitions
2021, Lesley Dill: Some Early Visionaries, Kennesaw State University, Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA.
2019, Lesley Dill: Some Early Visionary Americans, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA