PAA resident artist at AIR, Liz Vaughan
October 17 to October 25, 2011
This proposal is designed to last the duration of one week. My goals for my
stay in Paducah will include working on pieces that are in progress for
future exhibition, public demonstrations and to photograph the surrounding
area and city. My preferred starting time would be the first week of
November. I am flexible when the residency occurs as long as it is
between the months of November and January.
My work is mostly concerned with emotional relationships with
landscape and urbanscape. My process starts with photographing an area.
This allows a real intimate relationship to be formed between me and my
surroundings by way of camera. I photograph things like abandoned
buildings, old vehicles, vegetation and any object that seems to stand out
to me. In the studio I use a hybrid combination of digital negatives and
historic process printing. Mainly I work with cyanotypes which I sometimes
tone or manipulate. After I have acquired photographic imagery I collage 2-
d works in compositions that are layered and intricate. I also will animate
the collage pieces in order to produce stop-motion animation that are
accompanied by sound compositions made by guitars, found objects and
ambient sound.
My stay at Paducah will consist of as much of this process as
appropriate. The residency will be mostly focused on photographing
Paducah and working on the end stages of a body of work that will already
be in progress. So I will be in transition of ending one and starting another.
In order to help fulfill PAA's focus on including the public in the
residency program I will have scheduled times each day when the
residents of Paducah my visit me in my studio. I will offer demonstrations
of stop-motion animation, cyanotype printing, digital negatives and have a
collage party at the end of my stay.
