Lauren Morton

My Art Practice

Creating symbols from the fabric and rock forms in my paintings, I conjure a cypher; The process of repressing language under an encryption lends itself to the uncanny. I use the symbol-based cypher to repress writing that narrates the use of daydreams as self-soothing stories.

I challenge space and scale using veiled shapes and monolithic rock formation of my construction, the indecisive nature of their relative size creating questions surrounding the relationship between objects. The use of fabric and rock to describe figurative elements in the world disrupts recognition. This use of traditional motifs engages further with the uncanny, as I manipulate recognisable materials into less familiar forms.

Responding to the growing consumption of digital media, the story of my work is a consequence of the ways in which we desire an escape from everyday stimulus, in favour of digitally constructed realities. My practice is a form of world building that looks at Si -Fi media.