Lisa Walcott

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Ludic

    : playful in an aimless way

  • Ceal Floyer

    A new inspiration/favorite artist. Ceal Floyer’s witty & poignant work hits on something I constantly am striving for. Her work is dryly poetic in the way of a John Updike short story, but lingers like a drip on the edge of a spout. (Yeah, I just made that up! Ha!) Anyway, her work is interesting.…

  • Gestural Objects

    (Artist Statement in progress…as always) “Large things tend to be unwieldy, clumsy, crude; smallness is the realm of elegance and grace.” -Steven Millhauser Smallness lends itself to being sweet and modest. It is not clouded by grandeur or overarching themes. It is simply what it is, but by being so poignant it is able to…

  • automatism

    I had a great converstation in my studio yesterday with our Critic in Residence, Lane Relyea. He was really good at deducing and understanding my work as a whole (not sculpture vs. drawing vs. photography). He pointed out surrealist tendencies that I have. Almost everything is based on real experience, but it is shifted in…

  • Monstrous Stories

    I like the way Annette Messager relates to memory of childhood. The desires and fears of children are so untainted that they seem like they would give us clues into the nature of things–of us. I saw a Messager on my trip to the Art Institute of Chicago and really liked it in person more…

  • Simultaneous Peripheral Observation

    In the space between tactility and language the beautiful and unassuming linger. They exist in the peripheral, weaving in and out of clarity, difficult to get a clear handle on, resistant to words. There is room for the mind to guess and imagine. With a skepticism in the ability of language to contain our bodily…

  • Plugged

    I woke up one morning last week and thought “I need to put ear plugs into holes in the wall”. This rarely happens to me when I am making things. Ideas usually develop over long periods of time with extended trains of thought. It’s a very small, florescent orange piece. Kind of big and small…

  • Images from the Kitchen Table Series

    A series about the way things work. The things that go out and come in, pile up, get dirty and are cleaned. About home made at home.

  • couch

    (what’s in there?)

  • Picture 1…

    There are many ways that I document my thought processes. I have my physical sketchbook, this work journal, sound recording on my phone (mostly while driving), snapshots and screenshots. There is an ongoing digital folder of anything and everything that might trigger an idea from the web. Here is the collection of February 2009-present…

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