Laurie M.’s multidisciplinary work originates from life/art she has been has been intensely creating and absorbing since she was nine years old, when she silently declared herself an artist after recovering from encephalitis. It was in that moment she was confronted with the duality of life that she began to visually communicate through her work. Her work draws on the duality of raw emotions associated with yearning for truth and beauty within a disconnected western society. Elevated spiritual symbolism, color shifts and the incorporation of textiles have become prevalent after research trips to Indonesia in 2018-2020. Laurie M.’s spiritual disconnect with western accepted “ideals” of capitalism and her feeling of OT(HER)ness have amplified upon her return to western “society” and she is responding with new works unlike any she has ever created before.
TRUST, ACCEPTANCE and JOY have been the three prevalent words and the foundation of spiritually powerful works that Laurie M. has been visually processing in response to her life altering trips to Indonesia. The new works centering around the highly symbolic theme of Three Golden Snails, based upon an actual experience on Laurie M.’s first full moon ceremony day in Bali, Indonesia.
The words TRUST, LIGHT and MAGICAL kept reappearing In 2018 in works leading up to a transcendent experience in Indonesia for Laurie M. All three words Laurie M. associates with Bali and the people of Bali, they were all reinforced while there. In 2017 Laurie M. made two declarations for the new year, before the new year even started: ABUNDANT JOY and ANGELIC PATIENCE, both of which she still works on incorporating into everyday, artistic life. These words are further explorations of four of her expanding bodies of WordWorks; WORDS ON PAPER, DUALITY, NON DUALITY and JOY embroideries.
Within the duality theme she has been consciously exploring JOY specifically, for years, and recently joy has been taking physical form in the world through new works. A series of word embroideries, based around the word joy and other works in various media employing visual metaphors that clearly convey the healing power of pure joy. Laurie M. dreams of a collective world where all people experience abundance and joy. What would that look like? What would that feel like, to experience abundance and joy no matter where you were in the world with other people?