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Lisa K. Blatt

Artist Statement

I feel alive in Death Valley.

The desert attracts me with its light, beauty, simplicity. I stay for its complexity, contradictions and secrets.

My explorations include camping on a live volcano in Antarctica (world’s largest desert), dodging gun wielding locals and exploding bombs.

My interests include how perception is shaped by how and what we see, media and cultural perspectives and offering a landscape-type experience.

My art explores the intersection between the still and moving image, nature and culture, perception, and how landscape may represent being and non being, presence and absence, infinity and finality.

My work examines how landscape may be defined by what is not visible, what is memory or what is trace (ex. historic events with no remaining visible evidence like radiation from test bombs.)