Lisa Telling Kattenbraker

This body of work is about the conversations I’ve had with the bits and pieces of our existence the past few years- with community, home, re-finding what “home” is, with loss and acceptance and with invitation to something new. Working with traditional dye process and local beeswax, I’ve called on ancestors and old stories to inform me; I’ve looked back into imagery I used to understand and explain the world when I was younger, and imagery I used to communicate these things to my children when they were young. I’ve tried to infuse all this with the grace of age and experience by creating multi-layered backgrounds that hint at the perseverance of a mystery that never seems to unshroud herself.