Walking into Devon Lind's studio in the Tenth Street light industrial area is like walking into a studio space in Manhattan. There is no view of Baldy or the feeling of being in the wilds of Idaho.
Large prints hang on one side of the expansive studio, which has exposed concrete walls, small windows near the ceiling and workspaces with several other projects filling up the rest of the wall space. Lind has devoted herself to creating a new body of work, which she calls "Quand Un Papillon Bat Des Ailes à Kyoto" or "When a Butterfly Flaps Its Wings in Kyoto."
"I was living in Hong Kong for two years and working and studying correspondence through Harvard, and traveled around," Lind said.
Lind said she picked up a paintbrush at age 3 and her first camera at 9, both of which she said have been a part of who she is ever since. Lind is Korean and was adopted and grew up in Hailey, where her parents live. Her lust for travel has been a part of her life since high school. Her travels have translated into her work, which illustrates her fascination with time and space.
"I like to call my pieces think pieces," she said. "I like to provoke ideas. I want people to walk away from the work and wonder."
Lind's show has two parts. The first is a series from Japan, and depicts moments or seconds in time of Geisha women or a Japanese student on a train. She has taken digital photographs and printed them as giclée canvas prints finished by hand with a painted overlay of acrylic and etching ink. The photographs appear to have a painterly feel even though they depict real time and space.
"The second half for the show is loosely tied around relations and relationships," she said.
Fathers and sons, rowdy friends, mischievous boys and a one man-band, Lind's photographs of several valley personalities and residents are several images reconstructed to create one full image.
"It's complex," she said. "I am trying to get my work out there. I want people to take time and investigate my work."
Despite her fascination with travel, Lind said, "There is no place like this valley in the world. I will always make this my home base."
Lind's work will be on exhibition at the Coffee Grinder in Ketchum for Gallery Walk and through the end of July.
Sabina Dana Plasse: splasse@mtexpress.com
Devon Lind has taken her travel experiences abroad and created a new body of work for an exhibition at the Coffee Grinder in Ketchum during Gallery Walk. Photo by
