Sunday2PM Animal House - Instsalled
2013
Wool Tapestry, Needle Felted Fleece, Patchwork of Over-Dyed Found Woolen Pieces mounted on Burlap and Canvas
96x48inches
With Sunday 2PM: Animal Hall,
I was looking for an indoor feeling;
enveloped, cocooned,
yet not fully enclosed.
The piece has the scale and proportion
of a real door,
but I wanted the image to recede,
placing any perceived means of egress
far, far behind the picture plane.
Various weaves and densities of wool
all smushed and felted together,
but in an un-homogeneous way,
creating waivers in line and texture
that would lend their own distortions
to the imagery.
The piece was suspended:
it was not attached to the ground
where a viewer stands.
An outdoor doormat,
placed on the “outside”
of my doorway representation
was intended as a further outward extension
to that perceived indoor-to-outdoor pathway.
With Sunday 2PM: Animal Hall I look for
that complacent, private feeling
that can only be located “at home”;
the complete opposite
of stepping-out into the world.
This work was shown in the 2013 Group Exhibition Fibre Fortnight in the main Mall at ACAD.
I was looking for an indoor feeling;
enveloped, cocooned,
yet not fully enclosed.
The piece has the scale and proportion
of a real door,
but I wanted the image to recede,
placing any perceived means of egress
far, far behind the picture plane.
Various weaves and densities of wool
all smushed and felted together,
but in an un-homogeneous way,
creating waivers in line and texture
that would lend their own distortions
to the imagery.
The piece was suspended:
it was not attached to the ground
where a viewer stands.
An outdoor doormat,
placed on the “outside”
of my doorway representation
was intended as a further outward extension
to that perceived indoor-to-outdoor pathway.
With Sunday 2PM: Animal Hall I look for
that complacent, private feeling
that can only be located “at home”;
the complete opposite
of stepping-out into the world.
This work was shown in the 2013 Group Exhibition Fibre Fortnight in the main Mall at ACAD.
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.