Lydian works with natural materials and time-intensive methods to explore care, interconnectedness, resilience, and attention as creative values. Drawing from Land-Art, Slow-Media, and Animist traditions that understand making as a relational, place-responsive act; welcoming an environmental stewardship grounded in reciprocity, reverence, and shared responsibility toward living systems. Their project Lyminalkin brings these sensibilities into a multimedia stop-motion practice. The work is experienced as films and installations that invite viewers into a quiet, tactile world shaped by handmade objects, local soundscapes, and oral storytelling.
Lydian grew up among the cypress swamps, live oak groves and creative cultural melting pot of South Louisiana. A lifetime of wanderings led them to plant roots beside the third oldest river in the world, within the lands historically stewarded by the Cherokee, in the valley of Hot Springs, North Carolina.
Selected works
"Ragadella," 2025, llama fiber, clay, cotton, wool yarn, linen, custom multi-metal armature, leather, wire, silicone, corn starch, walnut ink, gouache paint, oil paint, grasses, herbs, birch bark, 12 x 9 x 2 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"Kuma," 2025, llama fiber, clay, cotton, wool yarn, linen, raw sheep fiber, custom multi-metal armature, leather, silicone, corn starch, walnut ink, gouache paint, oil paint, wire, wood, 13.5 x 6 x 4 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"Paloma," 2025, llama fiber, clay, cotton, wool, linen, custom multi-metal armature, leather, silicone, corn starch, walnut ink, gouache paint, oil paint, wire, 14.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"Hanging Out," 2025, llama fiber, clay, wool yarn and roving, linen, raw sheep fiber, custom multi-metal armature, leather, silicone, corn starch, wire, walnut ink, gouache paint, oil paint, leather, squirrel fur, wood, 10 x 10 x 7 in; 9.5 x 4 x 2.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"Fire Grass," 2025, llama fiber, clay, cotton, wool yarn, raw sheep fiber, linen, custom multi-metal armature, leather, silicone, corn starch, walnut ink, gouache paint, oil paint, charcoal, wire, wood, 14.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 in; 9.5 x 4 x 2.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"Allister," 2025, llama fiber, clay, wool yarn and roving, custom multi-metal armature, silicone, corn starch, wire, walnut ink, gouache paint, oil paint, leather, squirrel fur, 10 x 10 x 7 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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