Michelle Lynn Dryness
NationalPoetryMonth.ca April 11, 2023
Page from Night for Day by Michelle Lynn Dryness is published on NationalPoetryMonth.ca on April 11, 2023
Artist Statement
The Accordion book Night for Day is a mixed media piece from an ongoing series The Polarities Project. The text ruminates on themes of sanity and survival in a tenuous world of inequities and inequalities. I toggle between night and day as loose metaphors for darkness and light that are not literal states of being but that hold promise for nuance in their complexity. Using collage, I explore the ways image and text can inform one another in suggestive, unexpected ways, to spark the imagination and broaden our perspective on what it means to be human, to be both resilient and vulnerable. Lastly, my choice to use the repetitiveness of night and day is also a response to the passing of time, and to regenerative possibilities.
Night for Day was included in the exhibition “Pulp: Book and Paper Arts” at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, California, in 2022.
Michelle Lynn Dyrness work as a visual artist explores accident, intuition and suggestive imagery revealed in the unexpected. She works across mediums, and is interested in the various ways different methods inform one another within the same work. You can find out more at michellelynndyrness.com.
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