Lesley Dill

Lesley Dill - It is possible to see in Dill's current work a move toward more public forms of address. Though they are deeply intimate events, the performances are indicative of this move, just as photography - or any form of printmaking - is a step away from the signatory presence of sculpture. But most insistently public by far is a series of billboard images installed in Tampa in the spring of 1998. Motorists, beware: these may cause some double-takes. Their images are culled from Dill's recent work, and headlined by some favorite poetry: "A single screw of flesh is all that pins the soul," for instance, is paired with a androgynous figure body-painted with words.

Dill's decision to go public surely speaks of a determination to toughen the work, to make it more open to the weather, social as well as meteorological.

One of Dill's photographs used in the billboard project

This image can also be seen in one of the billboards created by Graphicstudio

Another of Dill's images used in the project

The text was created in the computer and printed on a laser printer

All of the pages of text were scanned into the Macintosh computer and arranged with Lesley's photographs to create the billboards

Steve Carlisle watches the billboard as it prints on the Vutek printer. The billboards were printed at Polygraphex in Clearwater, Florida thanks to the generosity of owner, Denis Peskin.

Lesley Dill worked on the Emily Dickinson poetry with paint and other tools

Adobe Photoshop was used to process the digital files before they were printed on film with the IRIS printer at Thunderbird Editions

The billboard was printed at Polygraphex in Clearwater, Florida

After the billboards were printed preparations were made to hang them around the Tampa Bay Area

Inkjets

Dill Boards - Vision
Dill Boards - Single
Dill Boards - Beauty
Steve Carlisle, Research Fellow at Graphicstudio in 1997, digitally scanned the art by Lesley Dill then put the poems and art together into 4 different billboard designs using Photoshop.

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