Join us virtually for another live studio visit on our IG Live @paradicepalase

Through reclaiming natural, mundane, and ceremonial found materials, Lydia Kern creates a spacious symbology surrounding themes of care, preservation, and the immaterial connection that continues with those passed on. The works are a personal record of her own and others’ losses and transformations, becoming a connective force. Her work has led her to forage in dumpsters, highways, farms, compost piles, apothecaries, free boxes, fabric stores, and florist shops. Lydia has been an artist-in-residence at the Corporation of Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, the Lab Program in Mexico City, and AS220.