Lane Watson

I observe and I make.

Not as academic pursuits but as maps of the interior. In an age of algorithms and instituional manipulation I am trying to find what is underneath all of it — the dark, primal nature of what we actually are. Not dark as in broken. Dark as in deep. Pre-noise. Original. I want to understand what it looks like to return to that, and what it looks like to build from it.

The Work

Liminal Lines is a monthly letter and print. A short zine — fragmentary prose, theological weight, psychological presence — paired with an original ACEO print, mailed to your door once a month. Writing and painting arriving together, on paper, in an envelope.The Unseen Man is a series of paintings. Large figures. Angular planes of color. Men carrying something alone. Each one bears a small mark of gold. The divine nature always present. Never explained.Fear, The Boy is a picture book for any age. A boy becoming a man. The images are lino-cut and dark. It is not a gentle story. It is an honest one.

I am an Eastern Orthodox Christian. The ancient kind. I believe God breathed something of himself (not metaphorically, but actually) into each person. Creative fire. Unrepeatable.The modern world has spent considerable energy making us forget that. I have not forgotten it. Everything I make comes from that refusal.— Lane Watson