About the artist
Hello and welcome! My name is Lindsey Hurd and I’m an artist on a quest to find a home, within the frame of my camera lens, for the poor lost things of our city. The detritus of life collects in our back yards, along our rivers, and the public sidewalks: plants living and dying, seeds, dead insects, discarded objects. They call us to stop and consider not only their condition, but our own. My arrangements of found objects seek to enshrine these lost things, infusing them with new life and highlighting not only the resilience of the natural world, but also of our own private lives. This work can be read as a prayer, a rebirth, a cry for help, a renunciation, or as the ever-renewing reimagining of hope. This project is a search for the love of the world and for what it means to be to be at home here.
I’m a self-taught artist whose approach to making art developed during the young years of raising my four sons: carpe diem or the moment is lost. As they grew older and tired of being my subject, I moved to self-portraits and still life. During a season of loss and expansion during Covid, long walks along the San Antonio river revealed the unlikely denizens of alternate worlds that populate my ongoing photo series Objects of Impermanence. I live and work in San Antonio, a town I thought of fondly as a kid growing up in Fort Worth, Tx.