"Rocky Bluff," 2025, llama fiber, clay, cotton, wool yarn and roving, linen, raw sheep fiber, custom multi-metal armature, leather, silicone, corn starch, wire, walnut ink, gouache paint, oil paint, charcoal, leather, squirrel fur, wood, 10 x 10 x 7 in; 9.5 x 4 x 2.5 in; 14.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Windgate-Lamar Fellowship
2026
Lydian grew up among the cypress swamps, live oak groves, and creative cultural melting pot of Acadiana (Louisiana). A lifetime of wanderings, dream weavings, semi-nomadic curiosities and listening-to-the-calls eventually led them to plant roots beside the third oldest river in the world, within the lands historically stewarded by the Cherokee. Here they spin their webs, raise their children, learn from the landscape, sing to the river, cultivate loving connections and make offerings to the more-than-human-world.
They work 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.
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.
"Rocky Bluff," 2025, llama fiber, clay, cotton, wool yarn and roving, linen, raw sheep fiber, custom multi-metal armature, leather, silicone, corn starch, wire, walnut ink, gouache paint, oil paint, charcoal, leather, squirrel fur, wood, 10 x 10 x 7 in; 9.5 x 4 x 2.5 in; 14.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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