Ruin Welp - ashen
2013
Graphite and Oil on Canvas
34x48 inches
The passing of 1000 years has
obscured its presence beneath
the forests of central Switzerland.
Steady erosion of ordered building blocks
a process that is well underway.
The remains of Ruin Welp
maintain their presence
affected only by
the natural passing of time
with neither happy nor sad intent.
Apocalyptic? Well the abandonment would suggest so.
Utopic? Well the current serenity of the site and the fact that it has not been entirely lost to human knowledge insists that there is some kind of enduring presence.
obscured its presence beneath
the forests of central Switzerland.
Steady erosion of ordered building blocks
a process that is well underway.
The remains of Ruin Welp
maintain their presence
affected only by
the natural passing of time
with neither happy nor sad intent.
Apocalyptic? Well the abandonment would suggest so.
Utopic? Well the current serenity of the site and the fact that it has not been entirely lost to human knowledge insists that there is some kind of enduring presence.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.