With my artistic practice I explore communication and transformation through physical, spiritual, emotional, and scientific approaches. My work has become an ever-expanding dialogue: a visual lexicon of metaphorical objects. Each item I create is a part of a larger vocabulary built around the energetic metamorphosis that occurs in the process of personal and interpersonal struggle. I challenge conventional ideas about isolation, physical malady, emotional illness, and spiritual unrest and recast these experiences as conduits of growth. My work is punctuated with unconventional materials used to construct objects that signify rebirth and individual renaissance.
It has become important to consistently explore my relationship with the environment that surrounds me. I gravitate towards reenactment, reinterpreting experiences of others and myself in order to understand them more thoroughly through my original filter. I intend to visually get at the energetic core of a matter. Fragments of mind and memory are brought up, recalculated and in some cases exploited with the intention of exposing the minutiae of every day life on a level that is intimate, unglamorous, and remains up to viewer interpretation. I carefully take time to use my propensity toward compulsion to form atmospheres. With this practice I create scenarios that are beautiful, grotesque, intriguing, and uncanny in nature.
Lacy J. Davis is an artist living and working in San Francisco, CA. Her work documents various communiqués, whether they be conscious or subconscious, verbal or non-verbal. She has specifically focused on re-enactments, pivotal adolescent moments, the subtleties of the feminine identity, and the exploration of isolation, sickness, health, and healing. She aims to expose the ways in which cultural norms are both perpetuated and subverted within interpersonal communications and invites you to take a look at the details in the glimpses of her documented actions and interactions.
