Story by Paola Ortiz ’22
Brooklyn-based visual artist and Guggenheim fellow Lesley Dill will offer a thought-provoking lecture at Mary Baldwin’s Francis Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 28. The talk will explore Dill’s use of sculpture, installation, textiles, photography, and more to “awaken viewers to the physical intimacy and power of language.”
Dill seeks to achieve this goal by drawing inspiration from the writings of famous authors like Emily Dickinson, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke. She uses mixed media to interpret characters, scenes, concepts, emotions, and metaphors expressed within their texts.
The resulting works oscillate between a spectrum of jarring, beautiful, and grotesque — and are often spectacular in size.