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Lane Lincecum (b. 1998) is an Artist living in Chicago, IL.

Statement

I create speculative and autobiographical images to document how my imagination maps onto my experience of the real world. This form of perception began in childhood, where I projected characters from cartoons and video games into my daily life to cope with feeling bored and misunderstood. As I grew into an adult, this frame of mind grew with me, and I now play with characters of my own invention to embrace and explore desires and anxieties that have only grown larger and stranger within me. My works take place in the banal architecture of the suburban midwest: 24-hour gas stations, empty highways, and decaying corporate infrastructure. These spaces are the scaffold we have to stage our fantasies in, and I draw the ways they become suddenly activated by chaotic queer desires and indigenous land-knowledge of the characters that pass through. These works look for a utopian sparkle where the ability to hope for any future has been stamped out, and ask how our shared imaginary worlds can become a means of surviving reality.