Choice Point (Saul)

$1,200.00

Choice Point (Saul)

Sculpture
Size: 38 W x 56 H x 1 in

Subjects: Abstract
Styles: Abstract
Mediums: Fabric, Lenticular, Textile, Fiber
Materials: Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric) Wood

Description

I work in the highly technical realm of digital embroidery.  But I also work as an artist who embraces serendipity as well.  I design pieces and parts in the computer, transfer them to the computerized embroidery machine and watch them stitch out.  It is noisy, mesmerizing and surprisingly soothing. It has a lovely rhythm.

Most of the time I allow the pieces and parts to complete their voyage through the process.  Sometimes I see a stopping point that is so much more lovely than what I had originally planned.  Sometimes the Machine glitches and hiccups and presents me with a different piece than I had anticipated.

All of the above are likely at work here.  I was working on a largescale installation, creating red modules to assemble together into a flaming whole.  After stitching for several hours, a glitch happened. I was unable to line up and complete the module.  It was a failed stitch out.  I had a lot of time and materials invested in that stitch out, so I saved it. I put it to one side for a few months.

Sometime later, I placed the failed stitch-out on my work table and regarded it with new eyes.  I went digging in my Failed Project box for another form I remembered, the bottom part of this piece, and started playing around and found my CHOICE POINT. Instantly that was the title of this dramatic piece.  Moments later I added (SAUL) to the title.  That biblical story seemed emblematic of the choice points of various kinds we all face from time to time.

This wall piece overwhelms with color, inviting the viewer into the egoless zone of pure sensation!

Sculpture: Fabric, Lenticular, Textile, Fiber on Other, Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric).

[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 200 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]

 

Additional information

Weight 8 lbs
Dimensions 49 × 20 × 2 in
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