About the Artist:
Lexis Vanhecke is an art student from Columbus, Ohio.
Insta @lexis_vanhecke
Westerville
Oil on Canvas, 2020, 8” x 10”
Brugge
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 8” x 10”
Dour
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 8” x 10”
Las Vegas
Oil on Canvas, 2019, 8” x 10”
I am a very sentimental person who feels a strong sense of nostalgia when I hear a song, smell a smell, or think about any special place in a time during my life. Each song I listen to has a moment attached, sometimes down to a particular hour, sometimes an entire month or season. I do not do this purposely, it simply happens. Here is a selection of paintings from a series I made on some of these moments that I think are worth bringing out of my own mind and sharing with others. Each has a specific story that it represents, and means more to me than may seem at face value. These paintings are a way to visually represent and savor these special moments, so when I look at them, I have that same sense of strong sentiment and nostalgia as if I were listening to a song. I realize and embrace that each viewer will experience these moments differently. My goal is to provoke some kind of feeling in the viewer — to make my moments their own in some way, even if for a short time, and take them some place familiar or unknown, and attach their own stories and emotions. For this reason, I have chosen not to share my specific stories and leave the paintings as the only information to describe the way I felt at the time. This way, people will be able to have their own experiences when viewing them.