Lori Esposito

Painting

My paintings are in means to dialog with layered and intertwining plant and human histories. My interest in stories without books developed from my early study in illustration, video games and comics. I lost interest in its conventions of narrative and client collaboration and moved toward a hybrid practice exploration way to combines figurative elements with organic materials and living systems. This curiosity in ways that materials interrupt narrative and internal dialog, began with my training with ink, and introduction to Eastern calligraphic approaches that engage with full bodied movement and perception. Making a painting is three-fold, a process of returning to a discontinuous memory, bodying the material to find new meaning beyond the habit or image of thought, and then rhythmically working that painting until a differentiation occurs. I know that a painting is successful when it feels full, and something has unconsciously emerged. I engage in materially specific painting, focusing on the conditions of the process, and allowing my impulses to unfold multiple and simultaneous possibilities of meaning.