Last Refuge, Accumulated Landscape Series
2012
Oil and Watercolour Painting Collage with Overlaid Fibre Construction
48x65x1 inches
Identities change over time.
Materials are physically altered
by usage and re-usage.
Identity can be reinvented,
but no matter how strong and
redirected is today’s purpose,
it cannot completely obliterate
the previous lives of the object.
This accumulation of identities
leaves a patina of physical surface texture
where the layers of accumulated meanings
can be read.
So yes, some of those rocks are fun fur
from past Halloween costumes.
Those are recycled pieces of
oil and watercolour paintings
otherwise unfit for public consumption
And some coffee stained canvas test strips
dredged up from the bottom of the scrap bin
join the two subject figures
and look out from this refuge
to the great world beyond.
or hide in here
see if the two silhouettes
can peer this way
down into the
back of the cave.
Materials are physically altered
by usage and re-usage.
Identity can be reinvented,
but no matter how strong and
redirected is today’s purpose,
it cannot completely obliterate
the previous lives of the object.
This accumulation of identities
leaves a patina of physical surface texture
where the layers of accumulated meanings
can be read.
So yes, some of those rocks are fun fur
from past Halloween costumes.
Those are recycled pieces of
oil and watercolour paintings
otherwise unfit for public consumption
And some coffee stained canvas test strips
dredged up from the bottom of the scrap bin
join the two subject figures
and look out from this refuge
to the great world beyond.
or hide in here
see if the two silhouettes
can peer this way
down into the
back of the cave.
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.