Kat Lyons
Echoes, 2024
Oil on canvas
40.6 x 50.8 cm
16 x 20 in
16 x 20 in
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As the complexity of life continues to reveal itself, classifications regarding the morality or hierarchy of the natural world necessitate continual revision and reconstruction. In their celebration of the ungovernability...
As the complexity of life continues to reveal itself, classifications regarding the morality or hierarchy of the natural world necessitate continual revision and reconstruction. In their celebration of the ungovernability of life, Lyons’s paintings challenge human reliance on the demarcation of environments and territory to relate to place and time. By inviting these questions, we are reminded that there are no relational boundaries between beings, and that earth is a great, unifying stage.
Strange amalgamations and intersections between species begin to arise, highlighting forms that unify life’s great diversity. What do these subjects share? Finding more affinities than estrangements, Lyons points towards the genetic coding that defines our phenotypes, which are constructed of the same elemental and material forces, revealing, in turn, beautiful similarities between ways of hearing - a human ear, a conch shell, the internal ears of turtles and the cavernous echoes between canyons. The vitality of other life forms adjacent to our own – driven by a curiosity, shared corporeality, our secret interior lives, vital synchronicities, and generational lineages that define what it means to be alive.
Strange amalgamations and intersections between species begin to arise, highlighting forms that unify life’s great diversity. What do these subjects share? Finding more affinities than estrangements, Lyons points towards the genetic coding that defines our phenotypes, which are constructed of the same elemental and material forces, revealing, in turn, beautiful similarities between ways of hearing - a human ear, a conch shell, the internal ears of turtles and the cavernous echoes between canyons. The vitality of other life forms adjacent to our own – driven by a curiosity, shared corporeality, our secret interior lives, vital synchronicities, and generational lineages that define what it means to be alive.