An expression of a complex relationship with daydreaming, Lauren Morton’s artwork explores the endless nature of imagination and the daydream state. Drawing from Neo-surrealist ideas and motivations , the paintings represent an escape from one’s reality.
Working in oil paints, the smooth, luminous brush work protests the mark making of a painting, disguising the material within the composition to accumulate mystery. The resulting, seamless, imagery makes up an encrypted landscape. Creating symbols from the fabric and rock forms in the paintings, she conjure a cypher; The process of repressing language under an encryption lends itself to the uncanny.
The work challenges space and scale using veiled shapes and monolithic rock formations. The indecisive nature of their relative size creating questions surrounding the relationship between objects.
The Cypher
Exploring Language
The language exisits symbiotically with the painting, decryptable using hidden names within them.