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25. Mai - 10. Juni 2007 - Vernissage 24. Mai 18.30h - Finissage 10. Juni 16h
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| Lynda Leighton, Visual Artist, is a committed & enthusiastic Visual Artist. Her work focuses on themes of human presence & absence. She explores, through the use of found objects and photography, thoughts concerning life and death, mortality and immortality. Through her work, she aims to encapsulate a sense of history, time and place. The subjects evoking a sense of their history and the lives they have touched: Present, future, past...time is no more. |
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Lynda Leighton’s work focuses on themes concerning life and death. Through photography Leighton encourages the viewer to engage in the mortality, vulnerability and mutability of the subjects and thereby confront their own. In spite of the inevitable, nature by its constantly repeated cycle celebrates permanence, - the victory of life over death - “The Circle of Life”. The Circle of Life is a situation in which all living things some-how and somewhere find themselves. Everything and every-one is connected and, eventually, returns to the earth. It is all part of nature’s system. A circle has no beginning and no end, life and death are one. The past is part of the present, which becomes part of the future. By participating in the circle of life and moving through despair, hope, faith and love everything and everyone finds their place on the path. Everything and everyone is at some point along this circle. Leighton frees objects from the conditions of time and space fixing them at a point, in a motionless state, on life’s circle. They are an indication of the duration that everything and everyone is involved with, from wherever it was they started to wherever it is they end. There is no photograph without “something or some” and Leighton’s photograph’s serve as an affirmation of the subject’s “thereness”, bringing attention to the ephemeral nature of life – a mark is left and time moves on. The smallest fragment of everyday life says more that the whole story highlighting the tinniness of life against the vastness of eternity. Wherever its position on life’s circle everything and everyone is vulnerable and beautiful and Leighton tries to encapture this in her work. |
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