LAUREN IIDA
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Our Heart is Our Strength

This new body of work reflects my experience living and working with children in rural Cambodia through the non-profit organization I started in 2014. I teach English and art to the children of subsistence rice farmers in an area totally devastated by American bombs and Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s. My experience over the last year has been full of the most heartfelt joy and the most devastating sorrow. I have discovered the incredible extent of the human imagination and the strength of the human heart in a tiny forgotten village in Cambodia. 

Drawing on my previous work in cut paper, I've expanded to using color, multiple layers of paper, and collage-like objects woven into the cut paper. Many of the images are heavily influenced by the drawings of my students. Please inquire through my contact form or at contactiida@gmail.com. 

My organization can be found at www.theantipodescollective.org

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Notre Coeur est Notre Force/Our Heart is Our Strength 11" x17" ink, colored pencil, aquarelle, graphite, cut paper (Photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida
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Mobius Flow 7" x 10" ink, colored pencil, graphite, cut paper (Photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida
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Longeat Hospital Behind the Lines 11" x17" ink, colored pencil, aquarelle, graphite, cut paper (Photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida
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Phnom Penh Just After the Fall 7" x 10" ink, colored pencil, aquarelle, graphite, cut paper (Photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida
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To the Moon 11" x17" ink, colored pencil, aquarelle, graphite, cut paper (Photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida
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Afraid of Being Alone 7" x 10" ink, colored pencil, aquarelle, graphite, cut paper (Photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida
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Aftermath approx 7" x 7" ink, cut paper (photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida SOLD
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View From the Balcony Atelier 7" x 10" ink, colored pencil, aquarelle, graphite, cut paper (Photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida
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Les Uns Comprennent, Les Autres Ne Comprennent Pas/ Some Understand, Others Do Not 11" x 11" cut paper (photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida SOLD
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Today I Learned to Listen to the Tops of the Trees, the Foreign Lullabies, and the Unseen Birds 8" x 8" aquarelle, ink, colored pencil, cut paper by Lauren Iida
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Petites Mains I 5" x 5" cut paper (photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida SOLD
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Petites Mains II 5" x 5" cut paper (photographed on a black background) by Lauren Iida SOLD
All Images Copyright Lauren Iida © 2022
  • Home
  • Bio
  • Series
    • Memory Net
    • Anticipation/Paris
    • Citizen's Indefinite Leave
    • 32 Aspects of Daily Life
    • 100 Aspects of the Moon
  • Projects
    • Meta Paper Cut Mural
    • Contemporary Cambodian Art
    • Burke Museum Residency
    • Bob Santos Balcony Railing
    • Denver Night Lights/Ukraine
    • Redmond Sound Transit
    • Seattle Storm Signal Box
    • Nuclear Sculpture
    • Densho Memory Net of Remembrance
    • Plymouth Housing Mural, Seattle
    • Federal Way Sound Transit Mural
    • Denver Billboard
    • 2nd Ave Sign Project
    • Factory Phnom Penh
    • Densho Artist-in-Residence
    • Oneness for Cornish
    • Tsuru for Solidarity
    • City of Bellevue Portable Art Collection
    • Washington State Arts Commission
    • Siem Reap, Cambodia Public Installation
    • "Public Art Comes to Your Front Yard"
    • "Shoreline Banners" Public Art
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Press