Poem Eyes ( These Saw Visions...)
Lesley Dill
American, born 1950

Details
Title
Poem Eyes ( These Saw Visions...)
Artist/Maker
Lesley Dill (American, born 1950)
Date
1995
Medium
Paint, collage, thread on silkscreen and tea-stained paper
Dimensions
149 x 75 inches
Credit
Purchase with 20th Century Art Acquisition Fund
Accession #
1995.144
Best known for her combination of art and text in large scale installations, Leslie Dill explores the relationships between poetry, the female body, and emotion in conflict with social conventions. Dill’s use of language developed while she was living in India between 1990-92. There she developed an affinity with the country’s spiritual traditions and artforms such as Buddhist prayer flags printed with sacred texts. She has described language as being, "the touchstone … of all my work.” Dill’s scroll paintings combine text with photographic images of the female form, alluding to the cascade of a waterfall symbolic of emotional release and spiritual renewal.
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