About
Artist statement.
L·S, Lena
My work lives in the space where the body and the natural world are connected and stop being separate things. Floral forms and landscape become a language for interior states: desire, transformation, the feeling of being vast and vanishingly small at the same time. And the awareness that everything (the body, the sensations, the experience itself) is only passing through.
In my practice, I work with ink with dense, hand-drawn layers of shapes and lines. By incorporating the fluidity of water, shapes of clouds alongside predominant floral forms, the surfaces are completely filled; horror vacui appears as abundance in every corner. The composition, with plenty of abstract details, moves like sea surface, transforming all that density into a calmness only recognisable in a state of presence.
These paintings are spaces in which the viewer can get lost. Somewhere for the mind to wander freely and rest, a peaceful place where one can breathe amidst the chaos.
Based in Tarragona, Spain.
Stories, the blog
“Create to explore, explore to create” is my motto. A cyclical process where creativity fuels curiosity and exploration brings new inspiration to the work; applicable in so many layers of life: the physical world, the mind, the self, existence itself.
I write about what feeds the work and what the work can’t fully hold. The outdoors and places, movement, health, the tensions of living… I’m always looking for the intersection between art and experience, between making and meaning; whether I’m sketching in a new city, wandering through a new landscape, painting in the studio, or just paying attention.
More intimate reflections, longer thoughts, things that need words instead of images. I write primarily in Catalan, my first language and I include the central idea in English.