Sky Windows

The impetus for the Sky Windows series of mixed media works on paper began with Laura M. Hair’s view of one rectangular shape of changing light, weather and movement and the question of how to merge with that shape and then, how to move beyond it. A period of recuperating confinement and pervading contemplations left an indelible memory of this visual and gave rise to transformed perceptions. 

Blue, a colour historically established as a harbinger of serenity evokes an inviting sense of security; no imminent peril prevails. However, blue in conjunction with a formal, confining shape, creates a space that necessitates escape. The artist utilizes the window’s dual function of looking in, looking out, in order to display the polarity of an exterior blue sky with internal translations of body characteristics. The imagery, no longer bound by a framework, breaks free, climbs and spills over the window’s perimeter. It moves in restless energy as it flows down and around the page in arrangements of shifting and bisecting intuitive markings, striving for new positions of grace and symmetry as a cathartic, healing process evolves.