Lilxlylilxly is drawn to the spiritual art of observing surrealistic reality, nature and the visual experiments she creates within these subjects.
New work: It’s just the way you look at things.
My perception of reality has changed over the years. With the photo serie “It’s just the way you look at things” I investigated my own neurodiversity (ADHD).
Everything around me I absorb without a filter, causing brain errors, this, in my reality can look beautiful. These brain errors I visualised by a glitchy effect in my photographs.
The mixed media artworks that I’ve photographed for “It’s just the way you look at things” where created and collected by me since I was a child. They consist of paper types, paint, chalk, marker, photography prints and screen printing techniques.
Through analog photograph (not using a computer), I visualized a glitch. A glitch is the unexpected output resulting from a brief electronic or software malfunction.
With this project I research the resemblances between the glitch that my human brain creates coping with a neurodiversity and the digital glitch by malfunction.
What is reality, how different is my brain compared to a computer?
Is my perception of this glitch I experience actually the same as a digital error?
With this series I try to explore the analog vs the digital and how my preception can change my reallity.
A.R.T.
As a child I was fascinated by nature, I carefully studied plants and insects in the garden. Nowadays I do that in a different way: with my camera. I examine scenery in close-up through my lens, which causes a fascination, creating inner peace.
That I experience peace at those moments is no coincidence; neuro-scientific research has shown that nature has a calming effect on the human brain, this also applies when looking at photos or videos of this topic.
A theory which gives a clear explanation is the Attention Restoration Theory (A.R.T.), which states that the human attention system is twofold. The 'involuntary attention’ is mainly stimulated through sounds, colors and movements present in the city, while the 'focused attention’ requires a low-stimulus environment, such as nature, to process experiences and cope with stress.
Where the border lies in the functioning of this theory, is something I try to examine with the photo serie: A.R.T.
Through photography and painting techniques I research the beautiful colors, shapes and structures of nature found in flowers versus those found in manufactured packaging materials. I examen the abstract organic shapes that caught my eye through my lens and those that are beeping produced with paint stamping and brushing with these objects on paper. By combining, editing and corrupting these works in Photoshop I am looking for a balance between the natural, human and computer manufactured and wonder to what extent the A.R.T is still functional when looking at art.
My wish is to make humanity more aware of the fragile relationship between man and nature.
NEXT EXHIBITION
MID 2021 AMSTERDAM
Unique pieces, more info coming soon.