Reclaimed
2014
Oil on Canvas
70x53 inches
Fluid boundaries that rise and fall over time
like a wildfire, or a glacier.
Ref: "In the Dust Bowl years, all that country was returned to the range by the Provincial Farm Rehabilitation Administration. I can imagine myself bumping across burnouts and cactus clumps, scanning dehumanized waste for some mark - shack or wind-leaned chicken coop, wagon ruts or abandoned harrow with its teeth full of Russian thistle - to reassure me that people did once live here. Worse I can imagine actually finding the flat on which our house stood, the coulee that angled up, the pasture, the dam behind which the spring thaw created our "rezavoy" - locating the place and standing in it ringed by emptiness and silence, while the wind fingered my face and whispered to itself like an old blind woman, and a burrowing owl, flustered by the unfamiliar visitor bowed from the dirt mound of its doorstep, saying 'Who? Who?' "
Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow 1955.
like a wildfire, or a glacier.
Ref: "In the Dust Bowl years, all that country was returned to the range by the Provincial Farm Rehabilitation Administration. I can imagine myself bumping across burnouts and cactus clumps, scanning dehumanized waste for some mark - shack or wind-leaned chicken coop, wagon ruts or abandoned harrow with its teeth full of Russian thistle - to reassure me that people did once live here. Worse I can imagine actually finding the flat on which our house stood, the coulee that angled up, the pasture, the dam behind which the spring thaw created our "rezavoy" - locating the place and standing in it ringed by emptiness and silence, while the wind fingered my face and whispered to itself like an old blind woman, and a burrowing owl, flustered by the unfamiliar visitor bowed from the dirt mound of its doorstep, saying 'Who? Who?' "
Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow 1955.
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.