Driven to Abstraction

Driven to ABSTRACTION by Lisa Lavery

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‘Mourning Nature’ - Alchemical Paintings Series

“There are infinite worlds hidden from our view in photographic matter, it is necessary to extract from the inherent laws of the medium a corresponding result: an exact language of photography�

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

‘Automatic Reactions’ - Unintentional Collaboration Series

‘Light, Dark and Grey Matter’ - Unintentional Collaboration Series

‘Overflow’ - Alchemical Paintings Series

(Previous Page) ‘Big Thaw’ - Plastic Landscapes Series (Right) ‘Lumen Naturae’ - Alchemical Paintings Series

(Previous Page) ‘Carbon

Sinks’ - Plastic Landscapes Series

“Only half the story is given in photographs and words. The other half, as 11th century Chinese painters believed, is given by the viewer as he completes the images in his mind.�

Minor White

(Previous Page) ‘The Sky is Falling’ - Alchemical Paintings Series (Right) ‘Rivers of Gold’ - Alchemical Paintings Series

(Previous Page) ‘Goya’s Dog’ - Alchemical Paintings Series (Right) ‘Anima Mundi’ - Plastic Landscapes Series

(Previous Page) ‘Cloud Burst’ - Alchemical Paintings Series (Right) ‘Death Mask’ - Plastic Landscapes Series

(Previous Page) ‘Dammed’ - Plastic Landscapes Series (Right) ‘Mercury Rising’ - Alchemical Paintings Series

(Previous Page) ‘Ocean Acidification’- Alchemical Paintings Series (Right) ‘Pathless Land’ - Plastic Landscapes Series

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‘Growing Deserts’ - Alchemical Paintings Series

“The law of chance, can be experienced only in a total surrender to unconscious” Jean Arp

(Previous Page) ‘Quenched Landscapes Series

Ashes, Cinders, Coals’ - Plastic

“The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of ‘how to do’. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.”

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

‘Hope’ - No Blue, No Green Series

All images © Lisa Lavery 2018