Lee Richmond’s passion is interpreting life through art. Her artistic work strives to make order out of chaos and extract meaning from our stages of the life cycle using personal, and symbolic references relating to our cultural history.

“We have the tools to remodel ourselves and embrace life’s unexpected turns,” Lee said. “Beginning with drawing, I juxtapose shape and pattern and create in layers. As I move through the process everything changes again; I see differently and begin adding, editing and layering until I feel myself at home.”

Her Exterior Shots series documents a house in the neighbourhood — the house, the colour, the texture — and in this exploration of her mind at play she subtly reveals her unique view of life.

Inspired by the making of a movie, Lee revisits a favourite house, and takes polaroid pictures — then she draws and collages using scraps of ephemera collected since she moved to Seattle. For this new series, Lee uses photocopy techniques to remove detail, like memory fading over time.

Each image in Exterior shots is then reconstructed out of paper and patterns, until the house takes on a character of its own and becomes the star of a documentary film. The whole production tries to make sense of time verses memory while the house character expresses it’s own subtle messages — a nod to our current times.