Lane is intrigued by contrasts in feminine and male conventions, and uses her welding torch to cut doilies and baroque patterns into mundane objects such as wheel barrows, I-beams, dumpsters and shovels. These objects, once relied upon for their durability, are transformed via oxyacetylene torch into delicate and decorative skeletons.
Coming Up Roses
Harper’s Bazaar, February 2007
Photographer: Sølve Sundsbø
Gown by Alexander McQueen
Atonement
an afternoon
The notes of a song, picked out singly
on a piano. The hands mistaking. The eyes
moving among the objects presented to them.
Picking and choosing. Testing the qualities
of a certain kind of vision: single, flat,
unpenetrating. Things are so simple, it
seems to say. You never know, she says,
you hardly ever know. Once I was happy.Halvard Johnson