Ishmael Adams
Professor Doris Cacoilo
Studio Research 1
2/19/2026
Creative Meaning : LesSeur Interview
"My body has become this recorder of sorts, and language has become a space for me to reveal the things that I’ve absorbed with my body; but it carries over into things outside of language as well, allowing me to explore different mediums in art-making."
The variety of experiences that life brings I believe allows LesSeur to be able to communicate those experiences in different art forms, in effect bridging the gap between both the art and material world. Art is all about using your experiences to create something that anyone can understand no matter the language or time period and using different mediums just exemplifies that even further. Mediums of art have an untold amount of potential to reach people and with every new medium people interact with it expands the ideas on how people are able on a new and undiscovered scale.
"These colors first came to me as symbols of a freedom I couldn’t quite grasp or manifest. They then became even more, as I started letting myself dive deeper and deeper into their theory and what being engulfed in them made me feel. Blues for me have become a way to tap into the cerebral while still holding space for the emotional, and reds have always been bodily for me."
Colors throughout human history and especially in the art world has had a variety of differing connotations depending on the person. Due to the freedom of interpretation I believe the symbiology of colors as a medium has it allows LesSeur to reach more people than she otherwise would. Though LesSeur uses colors in a mostly emotional medium, it could also reach people who see colors in a smell or a piece of music that could further find another audience for her to reach.
LesSeur's inspiration for her work is her body first and foremost. How LesSeur's body is used and viewed by herself and how it's viewed by the audience and the people who view her work. If it's one medium I would associate with LesSeur, it's her body given how much and how expertly she incorporates her anatomy into her work. Inspiration for my own work is a bit different however as I mainly work in graphite or charcoal as my preferred medium. I tend to get inspired by seeing the stories I hear or think about whether that be fantasy or fiction, fabrication or reality outside my door.
My choice of material reinforces the messages my art brings depending on the story or theme I feel interested in telling. If I feel the aesthetic or theme of the medium is happy, cheerful, sincere or any number of other emotions I feel it probably requires an art piece that matches that feeling in kind to communicate that message effectively. I feel if an art piece doesn't communicate the message of the piece effectively, assuming there is a message behind it, the piece hasn't done it's job.
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