LeighAnn Soucy

“The Slow Passing of Time”

acrylic paint & acrylic paint marker on recycled/secondhand canvas (innocuous & inoffensive art used to decorate hotels, offices and reception areas)

35” x 25”

2023

In this series called, “Left Behind”, I explore the concept of transformation and the passage of time through peeling paint, rusting metal, and other processes of corrosion and decay. I started to photograph, draw, and paint the surfaces of the dumpsters as a way of documenting the layers of wear, searching for a history within the marks. As I recreate the rich colors, textures, and marks on the surface of these containers, often including their identifying numbers, I feel that I am giving them visibility and permanence, as a record of the human footprint on our environment.

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