Nesto Lowham

Artist Statement

Moments in between. 

I have held them here somehow. Just here. 

Vulnerable spaces hold malleable memories. 

I make manifest 

the stillness 

of the mind. 

The image is 

the reinterpretation of experience, 

interlaced with transparency 

to my current state. 

My work narrates my own vivid experiences into reconstructed actualities. The unreliability of my own memory allows for components of the experience itself to be inflated, influenced, invented, or removed. The imagery expresses the emotional landscape that is left behind after an experience, while the process is my navigation through such landscape to better understand my own feelings. In navigating, I bring awareness towards the latent memories of my own intermediate conditions, now understanding them to be pivotal moments that have led to the construction of my identity today.

 

 

When Brothers Were Birds  Charcoal, pastel on canvas  84” by 96”  2022

Flowers Growing In Your Heart  Charcoal, pastel on canvas   50 ¼” by 40 ¼”  2022