Leigh Anne Lester American, b. 1966
Proclamation of Nature, 2024
Watercolor on yupo, watercolor on paper, wood, acrylic paint, shadow
83 x 76.5 x 4 in
210.8 x 194.3 x 10.2 cm
210.8 x 194.3 x 10.2 cm
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Proclamation of Nature is based on sentence diagrams from old grammar lessons; the connected frames house watercolor distortions of Lester’s previous plant imagery, physically attaching themselves to other works with...
Proclamation of Nature is based on sentence diagrams from old grammar lessons; the connected frames house watercolor distortions of Lester’s previous plant imagery, physically attaching themselves to other works with wooden bridges. The resulting family tree creates “branches,” sprouting the connecting “sentence bridges.” On those branches, draping like Spanish moss obscures the underlying information, including cut-out painted blind-contour drawing sculptures of some visual vocabulary within the frames. The linework of the frames creates a path for the eyes to follow and file through the artist’s visual vocabulary.
