Lucy M Freedman

About me

Hopes for my practice in no particular order

I hope to put myself first

I hope to introduce myself through my work and learn about myself while making

I hope to be deeply empathetic

I hope to show up

I hope to listen

I hope that I know my limits

I hope to push myself hard

I hope to hold myself accountable and critique myself and others constructively

I hope to make happy objects

I hope to make work in service of the body

I hope to research

I hope to consider those whose work comes before my own

I hope to make respectfully

I hope to be respectful

I hope to build small monuments

I hope to build monuments to small things

I hope to celebrate others

I hope to celebrate myself  

I hope to make sustainably

I hope to make work that welcomes

I hope to foster joy

I hope for the input of friends

I hope to let my process guide my outcome

I hope to be understanding 

I hope to make work for those I love

I hope to remake and redo

I hope to stretch

I hope to do the things at which I know I’m bad  

I hope to know I don’t know

I hope for patience

I hope to share

I grew up in Brooklyn fostering a hands-on based making practice.I focused from an early age on what it means to occupy a body, transitioning from jewelry to furniture when coming to RISD to explore a new scale relationship to the body, but love to work in a wide variety of mediums including fabric and textile, found object, wood, clay, and metal (both precious metals and steel) focusing on embodied experience and community. Repetition and series play a key role for me when working in order to revisit, rework and improve my object making practice. I seek to create work that brings people together through connection, commonality and physical contact.