Lisa Armstrong and Eric von Haynes: Echoes: Sight, Sound, and Touch

July 17 - September 4, 2021

Echoes: Sight, Sound, Touch is a collaboration between Lisa Armstrong & Eric von Haynes. A call-and-response between the artists, the work tracks growth and healing over time. The installation explores the forms of sound, light and print in the reconstruction of memories.
An Exploration in Slow media, images that evoke memories are distilled and sequenced for projections in space. The artists interlaced tones from plant biofeedback, as well as field recordings, to create a layered soundscape resonating the the floating images in space.
Handmade seed paper is an offering to participants during the exhibit to take and grow at home. Documenting changes over time in plant matter, the work asks, how are memories stored in the mundane? How do we grow and heal over time? And what are the memory markers that help us construct meaning?

Lisa Glenn Armstrong is a multi-disciplinary designer, artist, and educator living in Chicago, IL. She received her MFA in Motion Graphic Design from California Institute of the Arts and her BFA in Graphic Design from DePaul University. Her work focuses primarily on themes of time, space, motion, and the tensions between artificial and emotional intelligence. She currently teaches as a Lecturer of Visual Communication in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago and is part of an electronic music ensemble called Chandeliers.

Founded in 2007, Flatlands Press is owned and operated by Eric Von Haynes. Eric is an artist, whose work synthesizes old and new printing methods and aesthetics. While design and printmaking are his passions, he is energized by collaborations and the ideas and challenges that come from working with a community. Flatlands has created art objects and printed ephemera for artists worldwide. One of the core tenets at Flatlands Press is community building and making the invisible visible.