Susan Warner Keene - Life Study #6
Susan Warner Keene
This piece is is part of the Water Books exhibition which will be present during the month of June 2021.
Folio series
Handmade flax paper, flax fibre, linen cord, pigments and dye, unframed
11.5” x 18” x 2” unframed
Framing available upon request.
Susan Warner Keene
This piece is is part of the Water Books exhibition which will be present during the month of June 2021.
Folio series
Handmade flax paper, flax fibre, linen cord, pigments and dye, unframed
11.5” x 18” x 2” unframed
Framing available upon request.
Susan Warner Keene
This piece is is part of the Water Books exhibition which will be present during the month of June 2021.
Folio series
Handmade flax paper, flax fibre, linen cord, pigments and dye, unframed
11.5” x 18” x 2” unframed
Framing available upon request.
Reflections:
Folio: Life Study
When flax fibre is properly prepared, it develops high rates of shrinkage and translucency, qualities that can address such issues as the effects of time, experience, change. In most of these pieces the raw material is flax fibre, processed for several hours so that an internal architecture becomes possible, based on shrinkage and resistance. Material, process, and intervention are all critical to the outcome. Inscribing the papers from within or, perhaps more accurately, creating the conditions in which they inscribe themselves, tells a tale innocent of words.
The two-page layout of the folio format invites comparisons between them. In the Life Study series both “pages” are made the same size, but as the paper goes from wet to dry, each results in a different story, its ending determined by the elements incorporated into it.
Lead-time: Available at Artist’s Toronto studio. Local Pickup (downtown Toronto) or $10 delivery within the GTA. North American shipping rates and inquire for worldwide options.
