Nature As A Muse, Lana Waldrep-Appl

Lana Waldrep-Appl
“My work has long highlighted the beauty and complexity of the seemingly simple and ignorable—the quiet. My latest paintings feature arrangements of the objects that fill my periphery—my husband’s handmade ceramics both broken and unbroken, bits and pieces of my children’s discarded toys, utilitarian objects rendered ambiguous through their decontextualized unuse, single use plastic, and so many plants living and dead. 

These still lifes pair the mortal with the immortal and bring to the forefront the omnipresence of time. Time can be easily overlooked. It’s a slow drone, but we are bound to it. The most beautiful and meaningful things are often impermanent. Plastic trash, frustratingly, lives forever.

All of the objects are rendered life size. They feature scrapes and scratches and piped on impasto. They are insistent in their physicality. They speak to your body. They remind of your own physicality, and consequently, your own impermanence”.