lydia cheshewalla

Lydia sifts through loess soil on a blue tarp inside of a geodesic garden dome. She is wearing a tank top and short with her hair in a bun because it is very hot.
Lydia's hand extends across a backdrop of light brown loess soil and connects with a traced image of her own hand.
Lydia lies on a raised platform covered in loess soil inside of a gallery and her outline is traced by her friend Brody.
A raised platform covered in loess soil contains two outlines of Lydia facing opposite directions, head to foot, and holding hands in the middle.
A detail image of two hands outlined in loess soil overlapping as if holding each other.
Lydia walks around the loess soil installation spritzing it with water from a spray bottle. She is wearing all black and a hood with rabbit ears.
A detail of a wall installation composed predominately of maple samara seeds. The center part started in a radial pattern that appears like lace due to the shape of the maple samaras which are a seed with a curved wing.
A closer detail image of the center of the maple samara installation.
Another detail image of the center of the maple samara installation. The center piece now has a small dark rock in the very center and a line the comes out from the center.
An overall image of the maple samara wall installation. The center appears like a large circle with two lines bisecting and extending from each side. Patterns like diamonds, crosses, and arrows emerge along the line.
A wooden box of compartments hangs on the wall and is filled with various gathered and cared for items such as locks and keys, butterfly wings, fossils, roses, and feathers.
A detail image of the previous memory box showcases locks with their keys inserted, skeleton keys behind crinoid fossils, and a locket containing a monarch's wing.
A wooden box with compartments hangs on the wall and contains various collected and cared for items such as polaroid pictures of the artist and her cat, kitten whiskers in a velvet-lined silver heart-shaped box, and selenite crystals from Oklahoma.
A wooden box with compartments hangs on the wall and contains various rocks collected and cared for from all over places of meaning to the artist.
A view of the gallery and the multi-room layered projected element of the show.
A view of the gallery which shows how the memory boxes were installed on the wall in relation to the multi-room layered projected element of the show.
Lydia's shadow disrupts the projection in the second room where it layers on a white gallery wall. The two projectors at different angles creates two layers of shadows which overlap with themselves. Lydia is waving twice.

Body Speaking to Body

May 25 - July 16, 2022

The Union for Contemporary Arts

North Omaha, NE


Photos: Harrison Henry Martin, Patrick Mainelli, Lydia Cheshewalla

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