Hold Over Flow
This series uses various materials, including deconstructed screen-printed cotton textiles, arashi-painted cotton textiles, hand-spun and plied textile cording, cotton batting, commercial and handmade buckram, coiled cording.
Various dimensions, from 17”— 57” in height.
All pieces created in 2021
Hold Over Flow features a series of fiber vessels that explore visual metaphors for receptivity, holding on, and letting go. In this series, my forms show how the parts of a pitcher—the handle, the belly, the spout—are also symbols for human desires to be stable, useful, and generous. I invite you to consider the relationship between utility and beauty, and the ways in which the human spirit holds tension when trying to find balance between receiving, holding, and releasing our resources and our experiences.
Red Dot Pitcher, 2021. Deconstructed screen-printed cotton textile, found textile, cotton batting, spun & plied nylon ribbon. In private collection. 10" x 11" x 6"
Big Shoulders, 2021. Deconstructed screen-printed cotton textile, found textile, cotton batting, spun & plied nylon ribbon. 22" x 11" x 6"
Equilibrium #1, 2021. Monoprinted and overpainted cotton textile, low immersion dyed textile, cotton batting, spun & plied ribbon, painted cotton cording, dyed cotton yarn. In private collection. 23" x 10" x 5"
Susan at the gallery
Tentative Steps Toward Holding Multiple Viewpoints," 2021. Deconstructed screen-printed cotton textile, found textile, cotton batting, buckram, spun & plied nylon ribbon. 18" x 11" x 8"
Equilibrium Numbers 2–6, 2021. Arashi-painted cotton textile, low immersion dyed textile, cotton batting, buckram, spun & plied textile strips, painted cotton cording, painted cotton yarn. 41" x 10" x 5"