Far more than a tool, my materials are collaborators- each one perhaps more “artist” than I could ever be. Within my work, I intimately attend to the mundane, desperately hoping it might save my brain (and yours) from internet-induced atrophy. By developing a sensory language including fragrance, handmade paints, and pigments, my projects demand real world interaction. Whatever I’m exploring “right now”, whether abstracted or pictorial, a smell, a print, a painting, a pigment, I’m protesting our digital dependence by asking you to see it for yourself- and not just through a screen.
Lindsay (Lou) West (b. 2002, USA) will graduate with a BFA in painting and a minor in fragrance marketing at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2026. Ever indecisive, West started her studies at Pratt majoring in graphic design, then came to SCAD to study the business of beauty and fragrance. After incessant persuasion from her professors and peers, she finally conceded to her love of art and entered the painting department. Though seemingly incompatible fields, each avenue of her studies informs her work as a multimedia “artist” (though she prefers the term “maker”).
Through a wide variety of styles and materials, West integrates raw materials like pigments and fragrances into her work to encourage live viewing of her projects in protest of our digital dependence.
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