Logan Burn - detail backside, shadowside
2013
Fleece, Roving and Single Ply Wool Tapestry (felted after weaving), Aluminum Bars and Found Wood Block
55x38inches
Surface Imagery was applied with a dry needlfelting technique that uses barbed needles to force wool fleece through the woolen tapestry. The needling causes the fibres to mash tightly together, like the worst tangle-up bad hairday dreadlock ever.
The result is a solid image of fleece on one side and a ghostly image of the fibres that have poked through onto the otherside. The unplanned flipside of Logan Burn seems somehow poignant. 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.
The result is a solid image of fleece on one side and a ghostly image of the fibres that have poked through onto the otherside. The unplanned flipside of Logan Burn seems somehow poignant. 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.
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.