“Ghost Vessel” with video and water filled glass flasks, photo, Jesse Andersen,
Kathryn Lipke, detail “Earth Skins”
Kathryn Lipke, “Silence” collection, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Kathryn Lipke, “Spirit of Place” 1996, vessel made using saplings bound with gut, slide project, private collection
Kathryn Lipke, “Seed catchers”
“On the River”

video project from “In Search of the Garden of Eden”
Kathryn Lipke,”Hemerocallis coquetry’” 2013, digital print on archival paper, framed 27” x 27”
the launch of the Ghost Vessel for video

 

Over the years my work has developed into an intermedia art practice using sculpture, the photographic image, video and sound as  connections to the natural world. Always present, the land itself, becomes the catalyst for the artwork. It reflects the precarious state of nature and our fundamental relationship to the environment and its creatures.

Wherever I have lived or traveled, I have always looked for the connections which link human interactions with the environment. This has been nurtured by a deep respect for the earth and our ever-overwhelming need to conserve resources.

Art should stir and inform those who experience it. For me it must also foster an awareness, which reveals consciousness and purpose.