Or, Detail , Traces
2013
Silkscreen, Ink and Acrylic on Constructed Canvas
146x60 inches
Tracing Traces
One last theme that I want to explore throughout the At The Regatta series is:
The activity of tracing human impact on landscape and landscape’s impact on humanity.
Here are two quotes from Jane Urquhart's novel Away. that follows the lives of multiple generations women in a family. They highlight the contradictory notion of traces....things that lie beneath and are so deeply ingrained by repetition that they never really go away...........contrasted to the quickly faded surface traces of action and interaction.
“These women inhabited northern latitudes near icy waters. They were plagued by revenants. Men, landscapes, states of mind went away and came back again. Over the years, over the decades.”
"The three most short-lived traces: the trace of a bird on a branch, the trace of a fish on a pool, and the trace of a man on a woman."
One last theme that I want to explore throughout the At The Regatta series is:
The activity of tracing human impact on landscape and landscape’s impact on humanity.
Here are two quotes from Jane Urquhart's novel Away. that follows the lives of multiple generations women in a family. They highlight the contradictory notion of traces....things that lie beneath and are so deeply ingrained by repetition that they never really go away...........contrasted to the quickly faded surface traces of action and interaction.
“These women inhabited northern latitudes near icy waters. They were plagued by revenants. Men, landscapes, states of mind went away and came back again. Over the years, over the decades.”
"The three most short-lived traces: the trace of a bird on a branch, the trace of a fish on a pool, and the trace of a man on a woman."
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.