Artist Statement:
As members of Generation X, we were born cynical. I came of age in a time when nothing was sacred any longer. Religion, governments, family – all shifted from the Baby boomers’ conception of 1950′s (perceived) stability to the instability that followed the assassination of Dr. King and JKF into the civil rights era. Unmet needs lead me to the nihilistic “no future” punk aesthetic which influenced my earliest art works. This dead-end thinking needed to evolve, however, as I struggled to find purpose and meaning anywhere. Nature and the cycles of the natural world offered me a deeper solution. In finding connection to the threads of life in nature I did begin to feel connected to things outside of myself and find purpose and connection to life. Teaching children and making art are among the sacred things humans do. With photography and painting, and creating ritual and installation with others, perhaps we can investigate the sublime beauty, terror and fragility of life in a post-cynical era.
Lolly Lincoln
