Lisa Blas | Artist Statement | 2024
RECENT WORK: RECENT ACTIVITIES
Lisa Blas "Words my father never taught me", a picture dictionary of Guam, 2023-2024, Volume #1. Video edit: One of four sketchbooks of paintings paired with words from the Chamorro language, painted in the dawn hours. Photographed in New York. Videography: Brad Farwell
Lisa Blas / Words my father never taught me / Book #1 / 2023
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![Copy of The Instability of Nature Morte (reconsidering monument[ality] under the throwaway evidence of work)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533ec176e4b056226a553a1a/1501087211548-4TLLEFIC4UDVAO5LRTZE/InstabilityNatureMorteSeries_v1+%281%29.jpg)
“Color. To get closer to color — to get closer to Nature. Goethe experienced this as both a physicist and as a poet of genius.
On earth, the sea of evanescent blue and the yellow desert are laboriously separated. Blue and yellow are color’s first appearances from the colored totality of darkness and light, the incommensurable sphere of the firmament and the finite sphere of the earth, the first formation of primary colors, blue and yellow. Then the accompaniment of blue and yellow becomes possible: green, plant, multiplied growth. The sea and sky continue to be the symbol of the spirit, ultimately the symbol of man....”