Nature+Nurture (Lewis Vitten): ~approx 7”W x 5”H x 2”D
On view for month of March at PURPLEMAROON in Noe Valley.
Peripheral Vision is a loosely knit body of work that celebrates the art of noticing —highlighting what is often overlooked, underestimated, or living at the margins of daily life.
My practice is a slow burn, driven by curiosity and chance, often sparked by an inside joke, wordplay, or a line from a book or movie. I work with salvaged, end-of-life materials to which I have a personal connection, collected over months, even years, with no particular intent, until one day a mix of thoughts and circumstances align and an urgency takes hold.
I am drawn to things no one values. Old things carry the textures and patinas of lived experience - the misshapen, irreverent honesty of the Real. The Real occupies a space of hard truths and unpredictable struggle, yet carries the capacity for absurd humor, uncanny beauty and grace. My work is about powerful yet quiet transformation: seeing value through a different lens, embracing contradictions and delighting in “what if”.
