Beneath the Long Grass - Fairly Odd Landscapes Series
2014
Oil, Encaustic and Cotton, Jute, Wool Tapestry on Cherry wodd Panel
48x60 inches
Beneath the Long Grass
The mass and the meaning of the land
in a material laden artifact.
Accumulated interwoven layers
secured to the cherry panel with
encaustic medium and oil paint.
A mindset of a realist in
a world filled with energies,
both physical and contemplative.
Where human and natural forces meet
there shall be challenge and synergy
all planted firmly together
in the enduring prairie landscape,
“There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.” Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918.
The mass and the meaning of the land
in a material laden artifact.
Accumulated interwoven layers
secured to the cherry panel with
encaustic medium and oil paint.
A mindset of a realist in
a world filled with energies,
both physical and contemplative.
Where human and natural forces meet
there shall be challenge and synergy
all planted firmly together
in the enduring prairie landscape,
“There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.” Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918.
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.