Lisa Michelle Bakker

Can a reflection provide you with more information about your surroundings when it allows you to see both the foreground and background at the same time from different angles? With a neurodivergent gaze, foregrounding a play of lines, textures, patterns and details, I tend to look at spaces in an intriguing way. There’s so much to find in the spaces we live, experience, pass by and work in. In-between spaces with liminality and ambiguity reoccur in my paintings. Through painting mainly on cardboard, I try to interpret the perceived in new ways. Cardboard, as a discarded material, opens up the possibility of painting with its color, texture, form, traces, temporary existence, value and accessibility. It allows me to play with traces that become architectural when being in dialogue with the paint.