Marco Lean
Artist Statement
One morning at home, I was mixing this kind-of elaborate pancake batter. I had to beat egg whites until they formed pointed tips. Then I had to fold the whites into the batter.
As I was doing this, as I folded, I kept seeing the egg whites return – here, and then there, again and again.
I think that this shape, this changing and recurring batter, fits as a statement about my work and process. Mostly churning up the past, looking for repeating threads, pulling up darker sections from down beneath.
While At Headlands
While at Headlands I will continue to work on the novel Beasts of Time Recurrent. This novel is about a lot of stuff. Love is a part of it. Failure and jealousy are both parts of it. Grief is a part of it. We are all of us constantly changing, and this novel asks: Who were the people I used to be? What if they tell me their stories?
I will also continue to develop a series of writing pieces in which “readings”, literary readings, are a part-of the subject, as well as actual reading, family history, memory, daily activities, landscape, and places like Butte, Montana, and Reno, Nevada, and Anderson Valley, in California, and the Basque Country in Spain, and my family’s background in these places is explored.