Marcel Du Champ said, “Art should tease the mind instead of pleasing the eye,” and he often made art that challenged expectations of what art ‘should’ be or ‘should’ look like. Consequently, his art helped to open people’s minds to appreciate different types of artistic expression. I love to make art based on this principle, and I hope that my art will challenge expectations in a way that helps people become more flexible with their own personal “shoulds” that might get in the way of them living the life they want to live.
Lulu McPharlin
Mixed Media Art Collage and Composite Photographs
![Mixed-media digital art titled, "Pompeii"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/flowermural-copy-small-214x300.jpg)
![Photo composite titled, "Swinger"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/swinger-copy-150x150.jpg)
![MIxed-media digital art titled, "I Sea You"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/fishstreet-mural-small-300x214.jpg)
![Mixed media art collage titled, "Daydreams"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/daydreams-copy-150x150.jpg)
![Photo composite titled, "Spaced"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/girlandthemoon-copy-150x150.jpg)
![Photo composite collage titled, "Egyptian Goddess"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/egyptian-goddess-150x150.jpg)
![Photo composite titled, "Rainy Day"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rainyme.jpg)
![Mixed media art collage titled, "Stems"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/stems-copy-240x300.jpg)
![Mixed media collage titled, "Champagne Rain"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/champagne-rain-232x300.jpg)
![Digital collage art titled, "Catalyst"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/catalyst-copy-300x169.jpg)
![Mixed media art collage titled, "Wake Up"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/coffeerooster.jpg)
![Photo composite titled, "My own best friend"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/myownbestfriend-copy.jpg)
![Mixed media art collage titled, "Historian"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/vintage-video-face-250x300.jpg)
![Photo composite titled, "The Frontier"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/monument-valley-now-and-then.jpg)
![Photo composite titled, "Breaking"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/scream.jpg)
![Photograph titled, "Oppression"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/oppression-300x266.jpg)
![Mixed media collage titled, "irony"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/irony-1024x853.jpg)
![Double exposure photography titled, "reflections of springtime"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/springreflections-copy-300x200.jpg)
![Double exposure photography titled, "Spring forest"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/springtime1-copy-200x300.jpg)
![Double exposure photo collage titled, Coffeecat](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/coffeecat-copy.jpg)
![Photo composite titled, Death reflected](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/reflection-of-death-copy-small-247x300.jpg)
![Photo and poetry titled, The Seed](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/wisdom-from-a-seed-copy-small-300x200.jpg)
![Photo collage titled The Path Home](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-path-home-copy-214x300.jpg)
![Mixed-media digital art titled, "Coffeeclad"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/libertas-mural-copy-300x214.jpg)
![Mixed-media digital art titled, "Daydreams"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/window-sitter-mural-small-300x214.jpg)
![mixed media art, collage and painting of woman in red dress with red wine pouring down to make the dress](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/red-copy-792x1024.jpg)
![Mixed media collage and acrylic paint of television sets in desert with water scenes on them](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Environmental-damage-control-copy-822x1024.jpg)
![Mixed media collage and acrylic paint of two hidden women behind peeling paint](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hidden1-copy-774x1024.jpg)
![Mixed media collage and acrylic paint of women on a ski slope with a snowboarding bear](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/snowqueens-copy-811x1024.jpg)
Installations and Events
Midvale Art House Opening and Mural Fest
We had our official soft opening at the MIdvale Art House during the Midvale Mural Festival on June 8, 2024. For this event, we set up a special mini-mural sensory-rich experience that included visual art, scent, and sound in an indoor mini-size brick alley way.
![EmergeEXP Midvale Mural Fest 2024, Daydreams image](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/minimural1-269x300.jpg)
![Emerge EXP at Midvale Mural Fest 2024, Pompeii artwork](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/minimural2-840x1024.jpg)
![Emerge EXP at Midvale Mural Fest 2024, original work](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/minimural3-300x242.jpg)
![Labyrinth installation on World Labyrinth Day by Emerge EXP](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/labyrinth-basic-graphic-300x225.jpg)
Labyrinth Installation on World Labyrinth Day at The Lotus Center
We created a public installation of a sensory-rich indoor walkable labyrinth as a free community event on World Labyrinth Day (May 4, 2024) at The Lotus Center for Wellness in Salt Lake City, Utah. Participants were able to walk an indoor labyrinth made of lights accompanied by visual art, scents, and sounds to make them feel as though they were immersed in a zen garden at dusk. The main labyrinth contained a surprise reveal in the center, and there were surrounding activities such as a letting go ritual, an inspiring card draw, special macarons made by Chef Alli McPharlin, and a take-home art postcard with a finger labyrinth. Check out the gallery below for some images from this event.
![Digital collage titled, "Mystical pathway"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/lab-path-copy-200x300.jpg)
![Free macaron sign with creative cookie names](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cookie-menu-200x300.jpg)
![Macarons by Chef Alli McPharlin](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cookies-300x200.jpg)
![Indoor labyrinth made of lights](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/lab-path-200x300.jpg)
![Letting Go ritual station with "Letting Go" digital collage.](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/let-go-station-200x300.jpg)
![Prints of artwork with finger labyrinth printed on them](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/take-home-300x200.jpg)
![Double exposure art titled, "Reflection"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/lab-reflection-copy-1-300x200.jpg)
![Digital collage titled, "Blooming"](https://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/lotusface-copy-1-300x200.jpg)
“Enough” Social Experiment and Installation
The “Enough” project is newly emerging and is an experimental project in the form of an installation. This installation is both a stationary one and a portable one. We are hoping to get this installation into both businesses and homes. In addition to this being a project to improve self-worth and mental health, this project represents a disruption in traditional marketing messaging as well as a means of creating safer spaces in public places and businesses.
![Enough mirror tag for Enough project](http://emergeexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mirror-Title-Card-small-copy-1024x682.jpg)
Enough Project
Coffeeclad Collective Inspiration
“Coffeeclad” is a project in planning that will be a widespread public-created installation in which coffeeshops make a community notebook available for their customers to write in or draw in to offer inspiration to other creators. Additions to these books will be randomly selected and shared in a public web-accessible installation.