Space Between
ILindsay Weitzman is a Providence-based artist, designer and yoga instructor here at Jala! She received her BFA from Boston University in 2012, and since then has remained devoted to her creative and spiritual practices, which she feels are deeply intertwined. In 2019, she began building her own printshop and founded Odder Matter Press. She has had the privilege of receiving numerous awards and grants — including from the Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Arquetopia Foundation — and has exhibited her work around the U.S. and in Japan.
Artist Statement:
Lindsay is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking. Her practice has always been about experimentation with regards to ‘the Self’, the physical and psychological notions of ‘the world’ and human interconnectivity. Rooted in intuition & iteration, her art practice is a continuous material experiment - a physical meditation.
Yoga and other spiritual practices teach us to shift from our awareness away from our Earthly afflictions and towards the Divine, and to explore the spaces between. Yoga can be translated as ‘union’ or ‘to yoke’: a merging of the Self and the Universe; Shiva (masculine energy) and Shakti (feminine energy); creation and destruction; pure consciousness (Purusha) and nature (Prakrti).
Through Yogic practices, we are preparing to draw the energy into and up Sushumna Nadi — the central energetic channel in the body that runs from the Root to the Crown chakra. While Shiva (Pingala Nadi) is associated with the Sun and Shakti (Ida Nadi) with the moon, Sushumna is associated with dawn and dusk — the point in between light and dark, day and night, masculine and feminine.
Space Between, a series of unique monotype prints, is an exploration of non-duality and the transition from Earth to Space, in both a physical and spiritual sense.
Each print is unique and handprinted, created by painting or rolling oil-based ink into plexiglass and then printed onto soaked, handmade 100% cotton paper using a printing press. Metallic pigments add an element of surprise and a lack of control.
