Diagrammatic Erasure

Description

While investigating the different kinds of arches in historic architecture, I began thinking about the periodic efforts of governments to erase the histories of their countries.  Sometimes it is an effort to hide tragedies; sometimes it is an expression of religious oppression; sometimes it is a tool of hegemony.  But, if we remember, the beauty can remain.  These arches are beautiful in and out of churches, mosques, medieval castles.

[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]