Susan Warner Keene - Water Line #4
Susan Warner Keene
This piece is is part of the Water Books exhibition which will be present during the month of June 2021.
Water Line series
Handmade flax paper, unframed
9” x 14.5” x 0.75” unframed
Framing available upon request.
Reflections:
Water Line
In this series I am using the fluid medium of papermaking to observe the power of water to form and imprint our world. On its way to becoming an object, paper consists of a water-infused membrane sensitive to flow, stress, passages of light – much like our own bodies, like the Earth’s crust. Intervening in this state, I find there are many ways to contemplate permanence and change.
An aspect of paper that interests me is its long association with communication and ideas, yet, depending on how it is made, paper can also have a skin-like presence. Waterline #4 is a single, sheet of flax fibre paper, marked only by the internal architecture created by water first entering, then leaving the cellulose in the flax pulp. A blank sheet is never truly empty.
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.
