Out in the Noonday
2014
Oil on Linen
66x47 inches
Big sky, quiet earth.
The sun at its zenith.
Right between her eyes,
the insistent horizon
infallible, inevitable.
In this land
so harsh and unforgiving,
find the fortitude
to meet it with a level gaze;
an aware and weighing presence
on either side.
Ref:
"Searing wind, scorching sky, tormented and heat-warped light, and not a tree. The band of shade thrown by the shack narrows as the sun climbs, until at noon it is all but gone. It will be two hours before it is wide enough on the other side to shelter a boy's body."
Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow 1955.
The sun at its zenith.
Right between her eyes,
the insistent horizon
infallible, inevitable.
In this land
so harsh and unforgiving,
find the fortitude
to meet it with a level gaze;
an aware and weighing presence
on either side.
Ref:
"Searing wind, scorching sky, tormented and heat-warped light, and not a tree. The band of shade thrown by the shack narrows as the sun climbs, until at noon it is all but gone. It will be two hours before it is wide enough on the other side to shelter a boy's body."
Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow 1955.
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.