It was another dreamy SEE(d) studio visit—this time with artist, Lisa Blatt (@lisa_blatt) in the Minnesota Street Projects Studios in winter, 2024. Blatt shared her fascinating artistic practice that explores the complexity of creating landscape images that push the boundaries of perception. Using a traditional 4 x 5 camera (now digital), a tripod and herself, the artist’s project involves travel (mostly solo and often with scientists) to extreme climate locations — White Sands, New Mexico, Iceland, Antarctica, the driest desert, the deepest lake in the Andes, among many others. The images that result are exquisite interpretations of what the land has to say.
Our deepest gratitude to Lisa for opening her studio and sharing her daring and courageous process that often yields surprising results — ‘The Corruption Series’ comes to mind. The artist’s more recent heatscapes use infrared technology to document sites where troubling events have occurred. She contemplates what stories do these sites tell?
