Iris Legendre pulls from very personal sources, referencing her parents and natural vegetation in drawings and utilizing family photos to create unsettling and haunting works. In her watercolor drawings, she brings you into details of wrinkled and blemished skin, examining human flaws in a very intimate manner, one which might make the viewer uncomfortable or fascinated of the presented imperfections.
In Legendre's series Photographs I and II, she takes old family photos and adorns them with pins, pearls, feathers, sea shells and other materials. Some of the images become disturbing, looking as though these people are being tortured or suffocated. She likens the treatments to masks or coffins for these long gone relatives. I also see an association of parasites, mold and other invasive creatures. However, a few of the images have an ethereal feeling of a benign, spiritual haunting. The elegance of the three dimensional media treatment on the photographs can be very ornamental and appropriate for the time in which these individuals lived.
In Legendre's series Photographs I and II, she takes old family photos and adorns them with pins, pearls, feathers, sea shells and other materials. Some of the images become disturbing, looking as though these people are being tortured or suffocated. She likens the treatments to masks or coffins for these long gone relatives. I also see an association of parasites, mold and other invasive creatures. However, a few of the images have an ethereal feeling of a benign, spiritual haunting. The elegance of the three dimensional media treatment on the photographs can be very ornamental and appropriate for the time in which these individuals lived.