Everyone doodles with pen on a notepad sometimes. Lori Ellison blows doodling out of the water, even though you might recognize some of her approaches to patterns from your high school math book.
Yes, the above is ink on paper. Crazy. She is right in my obsessive wheelhouse and I love the scale that she works on – it’s relatively small in most cases. The above is 8.5×11 inches.
Many of us would start a corner and not finish off a sheet like this. I love the obsessive look not only of the pattern she makes but of the practice of completion. In a lot of things I make I decide to stop at some point – when I deem something to be “done” – but in Lori’s case that’s harder to escape when you need or want to.
I love that a lot of her pieces look woven. The above could be a rug or mat for sure.
The above is the first of hers that I came across that wasn’t ink on paper, it’s gouache on wood and is even smaller, 5×7 inches. I love that it looks like a loose knit or macrame.
In Lori’s own words she says her interests are in, “Art that is the size and resonance of a haiku, quiet and solid as the ground beneath one’s feet.” Here here.
Tags: 2D, art, artistic, drawing, ink, obsessive, pen