LIBRARY
Library is where my studio work started. This is the series that I look into what human identity really is and also where I've experimented the most with materials. This series is still ongoing, but with the crazy year of 2020, it has been put on hold till I can comfortably get back into the studio life again.
The majority of the work is based off of an interview I've conducted with an individual. Even though they are inspired by the interview, the choices I made in what to show, how to portray it, and even asking the questions I asked filtered what their true identity is.
I acknowledge this and understand that these characters are only inspired by real life and can never capture the true identity of someone.
“I will, of course, never know the truth, so I feel it is my job to give them new lives and rescue them from the obscurity they would be headed for were it not for me, humble servant of the arts. I try to invent an altogether different identity for them but of course, in the final analysis these works are more about me than any of the hundreds of anonymous individuals who appear in my work.” -Lisa Kokin
