Bonny Lhotka: Blind Faith
Artist(s):
Title:
- Blind Faith
Exhibition:
Creation Year:
- 2003
Size:
- 26 in x 26 in
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Artist Statement:
Known as an experimental mixed-media artist, I combine digital tools with traditional media to create my art. Blending these tools has required innovation and creation of new processes. I use mirrors, sand, dirt, glass, Plexiglas, metal, paint, and digital imaging to add visual richness to my art.
I’ve used images of discarded objects to weave a fantasy, sometimes incorporating puppets, dolls, and mannequins, and other such treasures into a fertile garden where the complex assemblage of meaning is visible to the unconscious. I combine fragments of objects, dreams, and reality to illuminate the connection between life and death, technology, and the human spirit.
These images may trigger generational memories without conscious thought. The archeology of the mind displays moments frozen in universal time. Some images are animated through the use of lenticular imaging. They gain depth and power much as time itself may reach terrible or wondrous slowness for a moment before continuing its eternal march onward.
A unifier of these individual components, the lenticular lens enables the creation of this moment of timeless reality. It bars viewers from entering the artificial world, yet enables them to understand the dimensionality of the creative intent. The artistic vision, brought to order from chaos, unifies time and space in a visual dimension that is only possible with lenticular imaging.
Blind Faith combines the image of the doll printed on both sides of Plexiglas with UV ink. A mirror is placed behind the image, which causes the viewer to become part of the composition and story. The visually rich metallic bronze and gold contradict the silenced soul. Two side curtains parting set the scene.
Affiliation Where Artwork Was Created:
- Digital Atelier
