Lisa Bauso
Art practice, curation, administration, education
Work in Progress
My creative practice merges lens based art that is either created by me, sometimes using very old cameras or vernacular found photographs, often from family archives, and imagery gleaned from sources such as thrift stores, books, paperwork, and printed ephemera. I use alternative processes (cyanotype, gold leaf, unusual paper coated with emulsion, old film cameras and alteration of negs and prints) to make the pictures. I am also experimenting with various materials by stitching and creating patterns on non traditional surfaces such as paper and existing photographs. I am adding three dimensional objects to create assemblage. In doing so I reference the idea of making things by hand using traditional methods such as needle and thread or pasting, sometimes incorporating this with the use of modern technology such as iPhone cameras and photo editing software. This is a broad description of what my source material is and I work with both hand craft and digital tools to make the finished pieces. I hope the resulting work conveys my objective to invoke history, experience, curiosity, memory and beauty of composition into a piece to elicit tactile, visceral or punctum qualities.
