Annyen Lam
WATER MANAGEMENT
Sustainable architecture can contribute to water conservation by collecting, storing and recycling rainwater.
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ANNYEN LAM
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Annyen Lam works across several different media platforms: she draws, makes prints (primarily lithographs), cuts paper by hand, binds books, and produces large-scale installations incorporating paper, monotypes, new media and wooden structures. Using subject matter ranging from botanical forms to dreamlike architectural spaces, Annyen is interested in exploring the human impulse to seek comfort within objects and environments, and how one can identify with - and subsequently transform within - specific places.
Based in Tkaronto, Annyen is a graduate of OCAD University’s Printmaking program and has exhibited throughout Canada, as well as Japan, Russia and The Netherlands, and is the creator of Tiny Blades Project, an ongoing series of small paper-cut works.
Artist Statement
Water is archetypally considered to be a substance of intuition, guidance, and rejuvenation. It is also easy to take its presence for granted. While we constantly need, use, and are surrounded by water, it is a finite resource. In this piece, I merge fictitious imagery with biological forms to speak to the interconnectedness of water with every aspect of our community, ecosystem, and quality of life. The playful, fictional water highways are part of my interest in dissolving the boundaries between categories, ideas and objects; these highway-like shapes repeat themselves in cells, bloodstreams, riverbeds, and natural cycles. There is also a great deal of potential for urban architecture and design to creatively mirror these structures when imagining solutions for effective water conservation.
This piece invites viewers to consider how biological and technological forces, while often in tension with one another, may be utilized collaboratively and reciprocally, with environmental stewardship in mind.
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