Studio Visit: Leigh Salgado, The Power of Pink
“The beauty of the world which is soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own.
By Gary Brewer
The weave of a pattern, the frilly ornamentation of lacy shapes layered into thoughts and ideas, feeling and form. Beautification and the playful delight in adornment as a celebration of the feminine and as a statement of power; story telling through a craft with a history dating back 1500 years.
Leigh Salgado creates cut-paper works that express a fearless embrace of her sense of the feminine. They exude pleasure, sexual playfulness and beautification; her work conveys this not as an expression of passive role play, of being an ornament for the male gaze, but as an assertion of the universal act of adornment and allure as a form of performance and as a show of personal power.