The world and the way we move around it is fluid, with an infinite quantity of stories ever interweaving, separating, and sometimes coming back together. Many things that I’ve seen or heard years ago continue to permeate my experience as I go about in the world. Music, and visual stimuli such as art and video games have stayed with me and led me to develop numerous specific associations between place, sound, and image. Much of my artwork explores these ideas, which are usually very particular to my own experience. While there may be some feeling of childhood nostalgia evident in my work, what is much more important to me is the sense of familiarity or clarity that I can’t easily trace to a particular origin. It’s a little like deja vu - it feels familiar, even safe or comforting, in an uncanny way. My making sense of this intuitive interconnectedness of things takes the form of playful, often graphic imagery.
I enjoy the long, often messy process that goes into printing an edition. There’s something special about the fact that the actual print doesn’t really exist at all until the very end of the process. Through making multiples, my work can reach a wider audience, and have a greater impact. To me, the distribution of a print is like the dissemination of an idea.
lfeininger@comcast.net
