Beth Lipman is a Sheboygan Falls-based artist whose sculptural practice generates from the Still Life genre, symbolically representing the splendor and excess of our current geological age and the stratigraphic layer humanity will leave on earth.
Her works are a meditation on our relationship to Deep Time - a monumental time scale based on geologic events that minimizes human lives. Each installation is a reimagining of history, created by placing cycles often separated by millenia in proximity, from the ancient botanical to the cultural. The incorporation of prehistoric flora alludes to the impermanence of the present and the persistence of life. The ephemera of the modern age becomes a symbol of fragility as the human species is placed on a continuum where time eradicates hierarchy.
She can be found online at http://www.bethlipman.com
Photo credit: Rich Maciejewski (cropped for episode art)
