Lindsey Morrison Grant
After a stint as a portrait photographer, I became aware of the convived nature and expectations of it and started to work with found/reclaimed/repurposed objects digitally collected or picked up/pocketed on mindful dog walks. A "Lemons to Lemonade" strengths perspective evolved. Incorporating discarded, demeaned, dejected items seemed emblematic of my lifetime process of recovery, reclamation, reinvention, and reincarnation. Reframing previously deemed deficits of my MH diagnoses as strengths upon a "spectrum" took time, effort, a measure of self-love, self-indulgence, and understanding that what we demean as "The Absurd" is also on the spectrum of human experience and perception.
Self-identifying as a neurodivergent, two-spirit, elder storyteller and contrarian deeply rooted in the roar and lore that's become Portlandia of The Left Coast, Lindsey Morrison Grant attributes success and survival (if not salvation) to superlative supports, mindfulness practice, and daily creative expression in words, sounds, and images. Currently, their visual works are among those of a cohort of artists with lived experience with mental illness and are represented by The Siy Gallery of San Francisco. Grant's art has graced the pages, covers, and walls of over 200 literary journals and galleries (physical and virtual) since 2019.
On The Spectrum
Digital manipulation of refracted light produces a spectrum of rainbow colors in this original photo of a grasshopper exploring the outside counter of a corner coffee shop.
16 x 20 inches
2022