Marco? - detail, Texô Vitae Series
2015
Oilpaint, Graphite, Encaustic and Cotton/Wool Tapestry on Birch Panel
28x49 inches
Detail - Tapestry, Encaustic and Oil Paint
Cotton twine,
sisal twine,
manila rope,
hemp rope,
and undyed wool;
these make up the underlying structural tapestry of the land.
They lend form and definition beyond the capability of flat colour.
TEXO VITAE
Texô, Texere and Texuî
To weave
To have woven
To have been woven
Each work in this series exists in all of these three conjugation simultaneously.
Life continuously building upon itself; in turn built upon and tethered to its inherited contexts.
Context...derived from the Latin con-texure...
A background, a milieu or a climate securely held together by weaving, plaiting, intertwining.
Cotton twine,
sisal twine,
manila rope,
hemp rope,
and undyed wool;
these make up the underlying structural tapestry of the land.
They lend form and definition beyond the capability of flat colour.
TEXO VITAE
Texô, Texere and Texuî
To weave
To have woven
To have been woven
Each work in this series exists in all of these three conjugation simultaneously.
Life continuously building upon itself; in turn built upon and tethered to its inherited contexts.
Context...derived from the Latin con-texure...
A background, a milieu or a climate securely held together by weaving, plaiting, intertwining.
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.