My Mother, Myself

Description

My Mother, Myself is a simple nostalgic exploration of the experience of parenting; my, at times, harried face stitched on my mother’s collected hankies: remembering her struggles and my own.  We parented in different times and different places.

• She parented in the oppressive 1950’s, a college educated woman who was discouraged from taking meaningful work outside the home.
• I single parented in the post Vietnam, post go-go 70’s, in that slow slide into decades of war.

We both parented with humor, anguish and hope.

[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]