Exhibition with Ross Coulter at Alta Forma in September 2025.

(All documentation of the exhibition by Ross Coulter)

Ross wrote:

“On my first visit to Lyn’s studio, I was struck by the intimate work she was creating, inspired by a scapular gifted to her by a friend’s mother. The scapular is a holy object, originally given by Saint Mary of Mount Carmel to Saint Simon Stock—an object like a “get out of jail free” card, said to release a soul from purgatory into heaven. I was intrigued by this relic from my childhood.”

And I wrote back:

“These objects I have made do stem from that gift, but it’s an indirect path, more like a triangulation. Several ideas have attached to them: about images, about bodies, about being tricked by appearances. The sources are perverse. I was provoked, for example, by Renée Thom’s theory of the image, a mathematical theory that he called catastrophe theory. Another point of a triangle was the death of Hector in The Iliad, the man who held fast until he couldn’t anymore (and that was the end of the song). There was also the Cave of the Apocalypse, on the island of Patmos in the eastern Mediterranean, where I sat and watched tourists kiss the icons in the holy cave.”