Laura Lee Coles

Sanctuary Cove
Tucson, Arizona
May 19, 2007

Description: Presentation of original compositions/electronic-trance music during celebration of the 50th Jubilee.

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Symphonies of Time
Vivo Media Arts Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia
November 15, 2007

Description: A multi-media music performance piece.

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APPARENTLY IN VIEW BLURRED REALITIES TWO

Moses Lake Museum & Art Center
Moses Lake, Washington
MAC Gallery
March 12 - April 16, 2010

APPARENTLY IN VIEWS BLURRED REALITIES ONE

Place des Arts – Coquitlam, British Columbia
Mezzanine Gallery – Solo Exhibition
October 9 – November 9, 2008

ARTIST STATEMENT
Digital photographs realized as abstract images, which encompass light on the surface of water, images of weather beaten galvanized tin with stains that appear liquescent. Within the spontaneity the entire natural setting is used AS IS without any additional lighting.

The purpose of the unaltered spontaneous methodology is to achieve a desired result of a “blurred reality”.

This loose experimentation has enabled the artist to capture the broken image and the rippled and distorted reflection of light. The images though perceived fleetingly, actually consist of fragments of light and color made permanent by virtue of capturing the moment. The images are a cast of complex patterns and appear expressionistic and at times mysterious and surreal.

To view the "Blurred Realities" collection click here.

Welcome to the website of interdisciplinary artist Laura Lee Coles. Laura Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been commissioned and contracted by galleries, municipalities, theatres, dance companies and festivals in the United States and Canada. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and trained in Modern Dance and Music. Laura Lee is interested in images of everyday subjects and attempts to portray them outside common perceptions with a “blurred” approach. She terms this body of work to be in a genre “blurred reality.”

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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.