ARTIST STATEMENT

Lorenz visually translates the physical and visceral experience of hiking remote landscapes. The works on paper reflect her observations of nature and record, via mark-making, the direct physical experience of wilderness travel in remote landscapes such as the Adirondacks and New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains. The drawings and prints are a visual mapping specific to each region: abstract, intuitive time-lines that mark a spatial journey of memory and change.

Grounded in traditions of performance walking, Lorenz’s artwork is shaped by the space she passes through while hiking. These private pilgrimages through swiftly changing landscapes create collections of physical memory. Translated into tangible objects, the drawings and prints become documents of the changing weather, the sounds of nature, the isolation, and the singular experience of observing time through changes in environment.

Lorenz writes, "The topographical nature of my work, both imagined and natural, evolves from my subconscious as I shape and transform the two-dimensional space with the memory of my own physical experiences of how my body moves through space, whether it is the crowded streets of Manhattan or the rigorous Southwestern mountain terrain. My physical body holds the memory of experience that I then decode in my artwork to explore the notion of transience, chance, and difference."