sean Leahy

Lisa Clague’s work between subconscious And intangible.  Her figurative hybrid creatures represent personalitiys from characters in her dreams. these characters may evoke fear or joyfulness, playfulness, ect. The figure that represents her duaghter if often a sock doll monkey that has been dipped in slip. her figures represent a passageway between what is dreamt what is lived what is remembered and what is to come.  These figures are a direct response to personal experiences. An example, if she went into work and was feeling unhappy he would make the piece unhappy.  She uses art to investigate both her inner and outer life, by doing so she creates space for increased self knowledge and transformation.  Her art really showed great improvement after her first experience with hallucinogenic mushrooms. That Is when she figured out that see needed to base her art after that weird world that comes from what is real what one may think is real and how far the mind can expand with a little help and a lot of thought.  I learned a few cool technics from lisa. One being if you want to make a concrete pillow, just fill a zip lock bag with cement and let it dry. Another, to make clay look like metal or bronze by covering it with graphite. She dips porcellin dolls in slips and adds makes to them and fires them to create some of her figures. 

"Drum", "Guitar", "Drum"

Sean Leahy

Cone 6 soldade, Goat skins, twin, lawn  chair, Cone 10 soda, guitar strings, cone 6 soldate, Budweiser