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Vessels of Surrender

This series of digital drawings utilizes the embroidery machine as a method of drawing/printmaking. It consists of nine separate prints based on 3D rotations of each of the letters in the word “surrender”. These vessels of grid-like wire frames struggle in their function to contain and communicate. The vessels suggest the futility of the human struggle to control and hold on to things. Yet the gold threads glisten with an elusive promise of the release in surrendering.

HER

25" x 35" Digital Collage

Be Prepared

11"x17" Digital Collage

Possibility Two

Archival Digital Print 32"x32" This series of prints examines structures of lace-making as a means of exploring the individual and the whole—a connection of how typographic forms are created in order to convey meaning.

Possibility

Archival Digital Print 32"x32" This series of prints examines structures of lace-making as a means of exploring the individual and the whole—a connection of how typographic forms are created in order to convey meaning.

Escape

Archival Digital Print 12"x15"

In the Meantime

Letterpress and Silkscreen accordion fold with hardcover 5"x5" artist proof 2010

In the Meantime

Letterpress and Silkscreen accordion fold with hardcover 5"x5" artist proof 2010

In the Meantime

Letterpress and Silkscreen accordion fold with hardcover 5"x5" artist proof 2010

Interference: Pressure Rising

28"x 40" Archival Digital Print 2014

Interference: Downpour

40"x 32" Archival Digital Print 2013

Interference: Touchdown

32"x 32" Archival Digital Print 2013

Interference: Currents

24"x 32" Archival Digital Print 2013

Compunction

Charcoal Drawing 29x23 inches 2011 In this series of drawings, man-made wildlife contextualized in natural environments seem to suggest the hubris of our ambition to remake nature in an idealized fashion. But these creatures never quite live up to the utopian visions of their maker, resulting in forms that appear as overly wrought relics of regret.

Contrition

Charcoal Drawing 48x36 inches 2010 In this series of drawings, man-made wildlife contextualized in natural environments seem to suggest the hubris of our ambition to remake nature in an idealized fashion. But these creatures never quite live up to the utopian visions of their maker, resulting in forms that appear as overly wrought relics of regret.

Penitence

Charcoal Drawing 29x23 inches 2012 In this series of drawings, man-made wildlife contextualized in natural environments seem to suggest the hubris of our ambition to remake nature in an idealized fashion. But these creatures never quite live up to the utopian visions of their maker, resulting in forms that appear as overly wrought relics of regret.

 © 2025 Kelly Leslie      

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