Mixed Media - Sarah Lessard

a comprehensive list of things I want to touch

2021

Collage on paper

With the pandemic, the thought of touching random objects is daunting. This combined with my uncontrollable need to touch random objects/things knowing I won’t like the feeling were the main inspirations for this work. As well, the urge to touch something and knowing that you probably shouldn’t lead me down a rabbit hole of exploration. Since I couldn’t touch these myself, a collage would have to work!

lost with the world

2021

Embroidery on paint rags

Using old paint rags from various projects, I stitched them together layering old pieces of raw canvas hand-dyed using onion skins and turmeric over the rags with old embroidery thread. Creating a world within a world, the paint rags mark various stages in the development of my art while the raw canvas represents what’s left to be done. Each rag creates its own world separated by the embroidery thread and raw canvas which work together to act as landmarks within each world.