Gravitas, Texô Vitae Series
2014
Tapestry of Wool and Cotton Kitchen String, Oil Paint, Encaustic, Reinforcing Steel on Dyed Oak Panel
40x48 inches
Gravitas incorporates wool on seine twine tapestry
that is stitched right through the dyed oak panel.
Each bit of the collage lends its own strong and separate voice to the chorus.
I look for each process, to add its own layer of translation, of mediation.
The chorus in Gravitas, speaks of a weighty and grounded final resting place.
Yet the textile nature of the tapestry voice floats above the solid void of dyed oak panel.
The fragile interwoven human community literally hangs by threads above the void of the oak panel grave.
The warp threads tie the humans to each other, even as they also bind them
to the plants/animals of the natural world, and the rusty reinforcing steel of human creation.
that is stitched right through the dyed oak panel.
Each bit of the collage lends its own strong and separate voice to the chorus.
I look for each process, to add its own layer of translation, of mediation.
The chorus in Gravitas, speaks of a weighty and grounded final resting place.
Yet the textile nature of the tapestry voice floats above the solid void of dyed oak panel.
The fragile interwoven human community literally hangs by threads above the void of the oak panel grave.
The warp threads tie the humans to each other, even as they also bind them
to the plants/animals of the natural world, and the rusty reinforcing steel of human creation.
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.