Solar Tide

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Solar Tide

Lunar position and solar winds interact to form high tides—and perhaps a few market shifts along the way. Solar Tide traces this push and pull between cosmic forces and earthly consequence. The embroidery undulates like liquid light, its stepped panels recalling tidal terraces or rising flood lines. The artwork transforms data-like pattern into something bodily and alive, a visual current that merges scientific observation with quiet prophecy. Both luminous and cautionary, the work reflects on our place within systems far larger than ourselves—reminding us that every tide, whether oceanic or cultural, eventually comes in.

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.