Logan Burn - Installed, Sunday 2PM Series
2013
Fleece, Roving and Single Ply Wool Tapestry (felted after weaving), Aluminum Bars and Found Wood Block
55x38inches
This piece had a working title of
Pooch Ruski (ski trails of Russia) or Logan Burn.
It is a tapestry composed of
a cotton seine twine warp and
a weft of fleece, roving and loosely spun wool.
After removal from the loom some needle felting
was applied and then the completed composition
was felted in a front loading washing machine.
A drum carder was used to mix fleece colours
in an ongoing dialogue with the work
as the piece was built up.
The two sided tapestry was sandwiched
between aluminum bar “grills” that I hoped would
mediate the space between
the landscape and the viewer;
make certain that this is not
a representation of standing in the landscape,
but one of being slightly separated from it.
The piece was suspended in
a floor to ceiling arrangement of wires.
Securely and obviously connected
to both the floor and the ceiling,
I wanted to create
a purely two dimensional plane in space;
wanted there to be
a definite sense of the solidity of the plane,
but without any physical depth.
In this way,
I wanted to create
a sort of mind-space,
rather than a physical space.
In that mind-space,
I hope that Sunday 2PM; Logan Burn
suggests a turn-around time;
time to start in on the “back” part
of an out-and-back journey.
Oh and that woodblock? Originally came from a Calgary BMO branch bank counter.
Pooch Ruski (ski trails of Russia) or Logan Burn.
It is a tapestry composed of
a cotton seine twine warp and
a weft of fleece, roving and loosely spun wool.
After removal from the loom some needle felting
was applied and then the completed composition
was felted in a front loading washing machine.
A drum carder was used to mix fleece colours
in an ongoing dialogue with the work
as the piece was built up.
The two sided tapestry was sandwiched
between aluminum bar “grills” that I hoped would
mediate the space between
the landscape and the viewer;
make certain that this is not
a representation of standing in the landscape,
but one of being slightly separated from it.
The piece was suspended in
a floor to ceiling arrangement of wires.
Securely and obviously connected
to both the floor and the ceiling,
I wanted to create
a purely two dimensional plane in space;
wanted there to be
a definite sense of the solidity of the plane,
but without any physical depth.
In this way,
I wanted to create
a sort of mind-space,
rather than a physical space.
In that mind-space,
I hope that Sunday 2PM; Logan Burn
suggests a turn-around time;
time to start in on the “back” part
of an out-and-back journey.
Oh and that woodblock? Originally came from a Calgary BMO branch bank counter.
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.