Lynn Imperatore

I have always believed that sleep is one of our more interesting endeavours. So when
I experienced a period of insomnia a few years back, sleep’s sudden absence became
a kind of overarching obsession. And in my ensuing efforts to understand sleep’s retreat
and hasten it’s restoration I also found a direction of interest and imagery for my work.
While my art practice has always been primarily rooted in a representational approach
to drawing - what I’m striving to represent is the interior world - some fleeting glimpse
of less visible aspects of the self - a hunt for a hint of the unconscious.

So I draw - and in that process seek to be surprised by what might show up among
the marks. And, as such, it becomes about a journey into another kind of landscape -
not unlike a good night’s sleep, or a dream, or a few rich hours spent in the dark
of the cinema.