Lisa Merida-Paytes

Muse Series: SPTBN2 Ataxian                                                                                    (Head detail)
2020
Paper, low-fire clay, copper wire, epoxy, and starch
28" x 10" x 12"
$3500


Website: http://www.lisameridapaytes.com
Ohio, USA

VO by Mari Weiss

STATEMENT:

As an artist with disabilities caused from Ataxia (a rare neurological disease that is progressive and affects my ability to walk, talk, balance myself, and use fine motor skills), my artwork not only considers the essential structure of skeletal or embryonic animal references but has become a vehicle to interpret transformative changes occurring in my body caused from the progression of the disease.  My work researches and brings awareness of people living with disabilities while pushing the boundaries of contemporary art.  My art discusses these concepts by focusing on movement's copious flow, a manner of passage of the living body to one’s gait and gesture.  This work drives examination of and permits curiosity for uncovering aspects of human nature and the wonder of origin.  These juxtaposed ideas reveal blurred distinctions between connections and dysfunction exhibited in multi-media, multivalent invocations of the body.

DESCRIPTION:

SPTBN2 Ataxian
This sculpture is of a person with a hole in their head. A tangle of thin copper wire floats from a large jagged opening on the right side of the head. The wires extend to the shoulder and behind the sculpture. A small round hole is on the left side of the head. The body is formed from columns of torn, folded stiff white paper. Toward the lower portion of the body, the paper becomes cream and tapers to a single paddle-like limb. The ceramic head has closed eyes, a broad nose and thin, pursed lips.

-description by Teri Grossman
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