February 2 - 23, 2019

Lee Lamothe: "Stuck to the Bottom of My Shoe"

  New Works 2018/2019

 

“Stuck” isn’t in the exhibition. It’s gone. I was having a difficult time in my studio; the floor was littered with scraps and cuttings but nothing came together. I decided to go home and on the streetcar I crossed my legs, looking out the window for even a shadow of inspiration. A young woman across from me looked at the sole of my shoe and laughed and pointed. I took off my shoe and looked at the sole: four small random scraps of sticky cuttings had arranged themselves in an interesting pattern around small torn magazine image of Donald Trump. The word “Ick” covered most of his mouth; an eyeball was imbedded in his bouffant; a torn newspaper headline about murder was underneath it all. I disembarked from the streetcar in the rain and walked carefully to preserve “Stuck”. But it had disintegrated by the time I reached the studio. I had a good day, then. Lee Lamothe 2019