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Lambent Journey Tools| New work| Susan Hensel Projects

Lambent Journey Tools | New work| Susan Hensel Projects I just finished a new iteration growing out of the Neotectonic series It is always curious to me how things happen to become. As a sculptor, I am materially oriented. I first think of materials and what each can do. Can it bend? Can it fold? Can it hold its shape? What happens if I make it bigger? what happens if I make it smaller? How about pink? How about another color? How can I incorporate it, whatever it might be? Does it need metal? Plumbing parts? And then, only then, do I wonder what it is saying to me! […]

Have you seen Susan? | Susan Hensel Textile Art |

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“Hey, Marge…Have you seen Susan recently? View new Textile Art by Susan Hensel “I hear she got her mojo back?” REALLY? It sometimes seems like I’ve been sleeping, or drifting around underwater, amorphous, like jellyfish or plankton, settling like Marine Sediment. View more textile art below. Other times, the studio was aflame with fury! Strange creatures arrived on pure white paper unbidden, in all their Compressed Complexity! And at yet other times, it required magical, mysterious navigational devices to find my way to the studio, like the Ancient Mariners textile art of yore. […]