In "Wanderlust," Lindsey Carr tells the story of an alternative reality: how female billionaires would explore space differently — or rather, how female pioneers are missing from space exploration and how they would influence the quest.
During the creative process, Carr explored what it would be like if that space pioneer were a female botanist, akin to a modern-day Darwin, exploring space in search of new life forms beyond humanity. The artworks in the exhibition depict a future with images of distant landscapes filled with fantastical mushrooms and networks of fungi, mycelia, among other elements.
Lindsey Carr specializes in watercolors and oil paintings. She draws inspiration from Victorian natural history sources, creating landscapes and non-human species with the same dedication and craftsmanship as the old masters. However, Carr also adds a surrealistic twist to her work, creating images that are both botanically lush and atmospherically barren simultaneously, stretched and distorted and in various states of translucency.
Another specialty of Carr's is programming and machine learning (A.I.). In 2019, Carr began experimenting and combining art with self-written A.I. technology. She became increasingly interested in the idea that art does not arise from the 'individual genius' but is an emergent property of the implicit and explicit rules that surround the artist and hence the art. In her oil paintings, principles such as color choice and compositions are generated by the machine learning (A.I.) programmed by Carr. "I enjoy the feeling of not being 'in control' of every aspect of the artwork. The artwork, to me, is a collaboration between myself and the randomness involved," says Lindsey Carr.