{"id":8,"date":"2018-05-04T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2024-09-02T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:03:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Statement 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My paintings investigate the uncomfortable transitory spaces of today&#8217;s cities.\u00a0 I am fascinated by the empty lots, the cheerfully grungy and absurd street corners and back allies.\u00a0 These lonely, in-between spaces reflect our alienation from nature, and our frequent isolation from each other. There is still beauty there, but also the heavy footprint of a culture that has evolved into a throw-away society, obsessed with convenience and comfort.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings are composites, sourced from my archive of images and memories. I begin my process by taking pictures with my phone. I search for places that are a bit unsettling in a way I can\u2019t quite pin down. Then I modify, simplify and collage this source material, first on the computer then in paint, to create an image that transforms my disjointed impressions into a study of presence and absence, of absurdity, beauty and anxiety, of perception and memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My paintings investigate the uncomfortable transitory spaces of today&#8217;s cities.\u00a0 I am fascinated by the empty lots, the cheerfully grungy and absurd street corners and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rjwarrenphotography.com\/lillian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}