{"id":48,"date":"2016-01-27T21:11:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexanderlyle.com\/wordpress-4.4.1\/wordpress\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:30:34","slug":"artist-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/artist-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-343 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexanderlyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/corpus2-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"corpus2\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/corpus2-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/corpus2-768x823.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/corpus2-956x1024.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I began my creative life as a dancer, using my body in motion to explore the foggy expanse between consciousness and physical experience.\u00a0 After a decade feeling unfulfilled in the choreographic confines of ballet and modern dance I transitioned to the less determinate pursuits of improvisation and butoh &#8211; inquiries into sub\u2013intellectual direct expression that led me to my current performative, sculptural, and visual practice. I now utilize these modes as a means to directly examine that same foggy expanse as well as to relate to a world I find over-laden with questionable truths and unsure realities. To do that I continually return to my body (in an animal sense) and the body&#8217;s direct produce.\u00a0 By its very nature the body has the potential for prime information &#8211; information that can serve as a much needed counter-point to the soul-less, manufactured, possibilities overtaking the human experience. I endeavor by working with my body to create work from a place more governed by my species than by my culture &#8211; conceiving with intellect but shaping and marking with as much organic honesty as I can manage in the hope of finding an underlying language that speaks to our species at large. Connecting the work with the act of making it &#8211; moving between the familiar and the unknown &#8211; the works that exist as much in process as in artifact and aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I began my creative life as a dancer, using my body in motion to explore the foggy expanse between consciousness and physical experience.\u00a0 After a decade feeling unfulfilled in the choreographic confines of ballet and modern dance I transitioned to the less determinate pursuits of improvisation and butoh &#8211; inquiries into sub\u2013intellectual direct expression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}