EMERY LAMBUS
Lamp Art Project Member
Emery, who has been a member of Lamp Art Project for a number of years, has amazingly continued his production of work while remaining totally homeless. Most of the Lamp Art Project members, while having been previously homeless, have accessed some type of supported housing, a stable emergency shelter, a transitional shelter, or even independent housing, prior to, or shortly after, joining the Lamp Art Project, usually through the advocacy and energies of Lamp Community.
This has been an obvious strength of the dynamic of which the Art Project partakes, i.e., the residential and other advocacy services of Lamp Community. Abject homelessness usually stops a human from creating art.
There have been a number of exceptions. Emery is one.
Furthermore, Emery, besides remaining homeless, has, on the whole, chosen to receive encouragement and supplies from the Lamp Art Project, but, only recently began utilizing the relative shelter and comfort and facility of the Art Project's Studio's space, in which to create his work.
In other words, Emery has been creating his art work "outdoors", on the sidewalks, on the asphalt, or wherever he makes his bed or rests during the day.
This is an amazingly difficult task.
In the last number of months, beginning late in 2003, Emery has felt comfortable enough to come in and work on his art in the shelter of our studio.
Emery's artistic training has been "self taught", as well as utilizing the limited art programs of mental facilities and mental facilities within prison.
He currently is working on his Black Clown Series.
The first piece of this series is on Bristol Vellum paper. [NOTE : In the images the paper is clearly tattered, curled and looks "aged". In fact, the paper is brand new paper, and this is simply how the paper looks by the time Emery finishes his composition. The "aging" is a result of the intensity of Emery's working method, and, although most of this piece Emery did in the studio, some of it was done on the streets.]
Emery has used water colors, pastels, and various mysterious "concoctions", (sometimes he uses lighter fluid as a solvent for his pencil work... coincidentally, xylene, or lighter fluid, is traditionally used as a solvent for asphaltum in the etching process).
This current work is 19" x 13".
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