Lauren Rice
In my works on paper, I depict imagined fragments from future
and former languages. These abstractions contain elements
of wear, such as folds, cuts, and erasures, that serve as visual
compressions of contemporary language, digital code, dead
languages, and imagined languages of the future. Intentionally
difficult to decipher, this body of work provides a contrast to
an age of information, images, and technology. Through my
placements of parts, I create a poetic future grammar, a foreign
language from which we can find understandable fragments, but
cannot construct a cohesive whole. These paintings are often
combined with three-dimensional elements, found images, and
irregular systems of display to further confuse the distinction
between image and object, actual and virtual.


