STEPHANIE LANTER

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CERBERA GALLERY – STEPHANIE LANTER Like rows of a spider’s web or sentences in a journal, these works on paper and porcelain text forms are built layer by layer by hand. Line by liquid porcelain or delicate drawn line, they intimately investigate the evolving complexities of communication, tracing the evolution of virtual thought into visceral object. Beginning with ambiguous words, phrases or symbols, they explore the abstraction of language, while remaining deeply personal. The painstakingly slow and “analog” process of slip-trailing embodies time and obsession, and merges dualities of technological messaging, making, and meaning. Each piece stems simultaneously from frustration, cognitive dissonance, and a love for homonyms. Can one word be a poem? As in the one-ear-to-another, whispered “telephone game” these works are maps, journeys, and sometimes surprising destinations. Perhaps a single phrase can be an entire landscape, full of nuance and possibility.