Artists are often stereotyped as a caricature of sorts– wacky, flittering, unorganized types who thrive on free expression.  And while some of that is often true, many artists find creating in a highly deliberate, meticulous way to be the best fit for their mode of expression.  For Brooklyn artist Lala Abaddon, her painstaking process of weaving photographs to create a new composition has as much to do with expression as any abstract painting.

 

Abaddon carefully hand-cuts existing analog photographs and then hand-weaves several together, deconstruction leading to new construction, old stories becoming a part of a new tale.  The artist often juxtaposes intense images with more delicate ones, the compositions sometimes abstract, or hinting at a figure seen behind the visual curtain created by her woven technique.  The texture and depth she creates isn’t just visual, but physical too, so that three dimensions are transformed first into two dimensions by the photographic process, then rebirther again in three dimensional form as a weaving.

Check out the artist at work–

To see more of Lala Abaddon‘s work, please visit her website.

All art images via the artist’s website, studio image via HiFructose.  Thanks to SCAD curator Aaron Levi Garvey for introducing me to this artist!