Laura Lee Coles

I have always had an interested in utilizing spontaneity, quick time, fleeting-time and uncontrolled movement when creating. I focus on abandonment and free form energy by letting the instant moment take over. I always end up somewhere interesting and exciting. I take these influences and use them as methodology in everything I create: music, dance, performance art works, installations, including the static expression of still photography.

I use the spontaneous creative process to translate what is real into abstract and surrealistic images. I capture whatever “it is”. The images are not manipulated by the computer with the exception of editing. The images are what the camera captured at the precise instance I filmed. There was no specials, not setting up of lights or sound. Basically, one could say that I incorporate the elements of dance in my work: Space +Time +Energy + Motion.

I like to focus on everyday images, nature, water, trees, mountains, birds, but also the abstract textures in nature, light upon water, shadows against rock or pavement. Additionally, I focus on man-made textures of urban images and urban-decay, such at old tin buildings, old wooden buildings, construction sites, patterns in architecture, facades, bridges, highways, power lines, and cranes.

When I write and compose music, I also use a unplanned and random process. There is no pre-planning and I refuse to use formula methods of music composition form or structure. The work is unplanned, and begins and finishes with the nuance of the immediate inspiration of the moment: the sounds I locate, the mood I am in. The music works are generally recorded within one or two takes as I do not like to dwell on them. The music works are the interpretation of the environment I see and live in.