Lisa Young

I photograph everyday objects in my home and studio with my digital camera. My objects are captured from life and translated through multiple cycles of digital and analog photographic technologies (paper negatives, large scale Xeroxes). The resulting images push the limits of legibility and suggest surveillance, x-rays, or newspaper photographs – turning the familiar into the beautiful and the strange.

Lisa Young, Common Objects of Mystery, Installation view, 20 Xeroxes, 35 x 42” each.

Lisa Young, Common Objects of Mystery, Installation view, detail.

Lisa Young, Common Objects of Mystery, analog paper negatives, 2 x 3” each.

Lisa Young, Common Objects of Mystery, halftone screen digital prints, 2 x 3” each.

Lisa Young, Buoy, 2001

Buoy's warped dot matrix pattern and Xerox artifacts make the image comprehensible only from a distance. As the viewer approaches the buoy the image dissolves into surface pattern. The closer the viewer comes to that which might keep them afloat, the more they become visually adrift.

Lisa Young, Buoy, halftone screen Xerox, 10 x 12 feet.