Lynette Miller

I use photography as a tool, a process of discovery, and catalyst for contemplation. While my camera provides a means of mirroring perceptible reality, that has never been enough for me. I’m more interested in the expression of ideas and meaning, and the exploration of relationships between humans and nature through form and creative possibility. For the past five years I have been working with a photo transfer material that allows me to permanently and archivally affix photographic imagery onto almost any surface. The substrate of my current body of work is Venetian plaster applied to tempered Masonite. I accentuate textures with multiple applications of glazes. Mathematical and geometrically based drawings are incorporated into the finished pieces. My work presents an interpretation and means of expression to the invisible, indescribable, and immaterial in an attempt to transcend an increasingly mechanistic view of the cosmos. I hope to convey my own sense of wonder by integrating the quantifiable, external object with the qualitative, inner experience, and perhaps in creating illusion I might also communicate a greater truth.