Via reader-musician John Danley, I learned of Lori Anne Parker's "Watersketch Prospectus," "a yearlong project and response to a personal health crisis requiring heart surgery." As Danley observes, "her work is related to aesthetic responses to trauma."
After suffering a spontaneous coronary artery dissection, Parker was unable to work with her usual oils, and branched out into watercolor as a medium. Her weekly sketches, each completed in an hour and a half or less, are free-flowing fantasies filled with networks of vines/veins and anatomically inspired botanical imagery. They have a vaguely unsettling effect, don't they?
Top: Unfurling from the Bedrock; bottom: Corporeal Storm, by Lori Anne Parker
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