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 state of mind

voices from an evil god.

Every thought, every idea was created in the mind for pleasure or pain. I am one of the darkest souls who has to explore the thoughts and ideas of pain.

We create lives for ourselves which none of us are truly happy with, and If we say we are, we are lying. To get out of our personal pain we create energy to try to change our lives into what we think we want, into a dream into a constant process of creativity.

For the ones interested in a different dream from the average person, we see a different side to life. The guts of the world, the pains rushing round in the blood, the squaller of the mind.

I don’t really think, in fact I know, that if I wasn’t an Artist I would live on a horrible council estate in North Manchester eating blocks of cheese and never going out of the house. This is where I must create something out of the squaller, or I will end up with a dead end life like most of the population.

While social withdrawal is commonly found in schizophrenic people, we know that some highly anxious people develop phobias to specific social situations: but some of them show no apparent lack of social skills. It is known that the ability to cope with and enjoy social interactions can be temporarily disturbed by reactive depression.

I want to show what makes one person tick and sicken others by it. Sicken them because they couldn’t look within themselves and see such pain, or, they look at themselves and could see them applying such pain. We all could have been someone different; we might even be in ten years time; but in order for us to be somebody different, we have to create the path.

history of the artist

from backstreets to bright rooms

An award winning artist for her efforts to enrich her local community, Lindsay is a developer and manipulator of the mediums of vision and sound. With a local community radio station as a platform for her own compositions, Lindsay has experimented with music and electronica: compositions that have found their way into her work, notably in her work exhibited in 2004, which combined the visual theme of overdose, sickness and impending death, with a dark disturbing soundtrack, that combined experimental electronica with conventional film soundtrack.

Drawing on influences as diverse as Egon Schiele, The backstreet maudlin notes of The Smiths, and German techno’s dark rhythms, Lindsay creates work that challenges the eye and mind, arresting attention, forcing a confrontation of the bloody notions of human sickness and misery - aspects of life we would otherwise prefer to leave unacknowledged, and concomitantly, unchallenged. Lindsay continues to confront the forgotten sides of life with her latest project; a project that draws together a serial killer’s madness and evil; his victims bloody pain and death; and the apparent paradox of a bright room that threatens darkness and chaos. Added to the visual is the discordant sounds of dysfunctional circuitry and dark ambient music; again, offering a paradox of melody and the threat of chaotic breakdown.

“Lindsay Amanda Lowcock is a name to watch for, an artist unafraid to confront humanity’s darkside. A side we need to see, so that it can be recognised and brought under control.” Sean Moran, Writer

information

mood changing/ heart wrenching?

Light, a medium that is associated with order - as in the Biblical conquest by God of the chaos of darkness before creation in Genesis 1:3-4 - can also be a medium for the creation of disparate moods; red can induce anger; pink calm; warm and cold lighting. The flickering and buzzing of a broken light can bring a threat of the return to darkness and chaotic uncertainty. A discord that allegorizes the broken mind of a serial killer, and the chaos and fear that he leaves in his wake. The comfort of the light overcoming dark, so that order remains dominant in our activities, is endangered by the faulty connection that is a foreboding of possible danger and disorder. The flickering light and buzz creates a “visually arresting work, that helps to expose humanity’s inner sickness”.

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