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Artist Statement
In works-on-paper, installations, and animations, Leona Christie's work is rooted in the process of drawing, both from imagination and observation, situated between daily life and the dream sequence.
A new body of work (2011) reflects on the nature of memory, including an ongoing printmaking collaboration with her brother, Gavin, who possesses uncanny photographic recall. Gavin is driven to document all that he remembers in written systems of pattern and order, especially that which is lost or out-dated.
In closely reading and re-presenting her brother’s archive, Christie has been inspired to re-visit her own past, as recorded in drawings made from observation, kept privately in sketchbooks created and kept over a span of twenty years. Using high-resolution scans of these drawings as a starting point, these new drawings and archival pigment prints---on paper, silk, and mylar--convey fragmentary and personal moments of the past as they are colored, lit, altered, and distorted through the magnifying lens of the digital, screen-based present.
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