Or sketch , detail, Repeats
2013
Silkscreen, Ink and Acrylic on Raw Canvas
13x48 inches
I was thinking about an often over-quoted idea:
We become what we repeatedly do.
The actual quote "The good of humanity is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a human blessed and happy" translated from Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 4; Book I, 7
Or maybe people are not quoting Aristotle but a 20th century translation by Will Durant: "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly." summation of Aristotle's ideas in Will Durant's, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926) Ch. II: Aristotle and Greek Science; part VII: Ethics and the Nature of Happiness
For this piece, I wanted to somehow record the traces of this repeated and repeated and repeated activity as a striving to achieve the perfect line, the perfect arc, the perfect motion.
We become what we repeatedly do.
The actual quote "The good of humanity is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a human blessed and happy" translated from Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 4; Book I, 7
Or maybe people are not quoting Aristotle but a 20th century translation by Will Durant: "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly." summation of Aristotle's ideas in Will Durant's, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926) Ch. II: Aristotle and Greek Science; part VII: Ethics and the Nature of Happiness
For this piece, I wanted to somehow record the traces of this repeated and repeated and repeated activity as a striving to achieve the perfect line, the perfect arc, the perfect motion.
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.