Branching Logic
Branching Logic brings together works made between 2008 and 2014 in which the tree first becomes the central organizing structure. Influenced by David Hockney’s photographic joiners and multi-perspective landscapes, these paintings and collages hold multiple scenes, identities, memories, and cultural references within a single branching system. Domestic space, inherited roles, consumer imagery, Jewish identity, landscape, and femininity all occupy the same visual field. The tree functions simultaneously as structure, witness, family line, and psychological map. These works established the symbolic language of trees, branching forms, and layered narrative spaces that continue throughout Lazarus’s later series.
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