Aflame at the Edge of Existence

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Aflame at the Edge of Existence

As climate change accelerates, we need to consider alternative ways to live. Aflame at the Edge of Existence imagines the liminal space between collapse and transformation—what happens at the edge when systems fail and new orders begin to form. The rhythmic, interwoven threads evoke waves of energy, fusion, and renewal, suggesting both destruction and rebirth. Using digital embroidery as a painterly medium, the work translates data-like precision into organic, fluid motion. The palette of luminous blues, golds, and ambers recalls heat, atmosphere, and elemental flow, merging the scientific and the mystical. At once meditative and charged, the piece invites reflection on the possibility of beauty within instability—a visual meditation on resilience, interconnection, and the physics of becoming.

[su_box title=”Susan Hensel” box_color=”#2a6bb0″] Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. Susan received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics. With a history, to date, of over 350 exhibitions, more than 30 of them solo, twenty garnering awards. Above all, Hensel’s desire to communicate stories through art continues to be a powerful motivator. Hensel’s artwork is known and collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums. [/su_box]