Susan Denniston
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Entanglements and Metamorhosis

Entanglements: There is No Script

Entanglements: The Weight of the Unspoken

Susan Denniston

"One chooses an object which, when gradually deciphered, reveals a state of mind." - Stéphane Mallarmé

The objects which are so compelling to me have been the seawall, the human figure, and small pieces of our environment. Each is a container, a repository of a truth that endures.

Seawalls are built by man and changed by the ocean, sometimes reflecting a delicate balance, other times a powerful imbalance, between nature and man, between us all, between what is revealed and what is concealed, between sorrow and joy, between isolation and connection.

The figures reflect a search for connection with the other; a cry for contact, communication, compassion, and community; a struggle for truth, tolerance, tenderness, and transcendence; a faith in our shared humanity.

For me, the very process of layering color, shapes, and lines in the search to bring forth an image comes to embody our entanglements and the inherent messiness and imperfection of connection.

Through observation and contemplation of the image that emerges through the layers from the flat surface of the paper, I hope subtle and perhaps uncertain currents and undercurrents of recognition and possibility begin to stir in the viewer who pauses to gradually decipher the image through their own perceptions and memories.

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