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Finding Connection and Healing in ‘Return To Me’ by Linda Lopez

‘Return To Me: A House Divided’ by Linda Lopez “Return To Me: A House Divided” is the story of Ethan Salmanaire who had a rough childhood. While still young, he meets Melodia Procaccini…

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Text from Interview with Linda Lopez | art and signature      

http://www.artandsignature.com/en/blog/2016/03/04/interview-with-linda-lopez/                                  

You often use mundane everyday objects, such as pieces of furniture or potted plants in your works. Why are they so interesting to you? Where do you draw the inspiration for your works from?

My inspiration comes from mundane moments in everyday life. My work revolves around these moments that we often overlook. I believe this all stems from my childhood: my mother, a Vietnamese refugee, and my father, a Mexican immigrant, spoke very little English and communication at home was minimal. When my mother would describe things to me, she would say things like: “Linda, don’t put too much toilet paper in the toilet or the toilet will choke.” This is how she would animate the inanimate, which impacted my perspective on the objects around me. I then started to develop relationships with these mundane things. That’s where it all began: with the ability to notice all the small things instead of having them just on the periphery of my life.

How would you describe your creative process? Do you have an idea in your head that you then work on, or do you make a drawing of the object first?

Most of my work is deeply influenced by place, especially my current place of residence. Usually my creative process starts with absurd moments in reality or with whatever catches my attention.  I tend to take photographs of these strange moments that I encounter. I then use these images for drawings or a loose model for sculptures. I am never quite sure what comes first: the drawing or the sculpture. They seem to inform each other in a symbiotic relationship.  My practice requires me to loosen my grip on reality and allow myself to drift into an almost fictional world to believe that something is happening or turning into something else.

Such as when you step back for a moment and look at a chair without thinking of it as a chair, you may begin to understand it for what it actually is. I create objects that float between reality and a nonsensical world. Fiction plays a large role in my practice, such as Miranda July’s short stories. Her ability to change our perception of what one is experiencing is mesmerizing. She pushes our understanding of reality in contrast to experience.