A collection primarily based on discovered objects that might in any other case be misplaced or deserted by artist Sue Palmer Stone. “Embodiment — Salvaging A Self” represents an try to derive worth out from detritus in an effort to ascertain a way of concord in a dissonant and more and more fragile world. The mission coincides with Stone’s struggles with an autoimmune situation that threatens her mobility. When stone discovers an merchandise in a scrap steel yard or alleyway, she might haul them to a brand new web site or again to her studio to work with sculpturally or photographically. Different occasions she is going to {photograph} them the place she finds them with solely slight changes or intervention:
“The sculptures I create in my studio talk obliquely and instantly with what attracts my consideration within the outdoors world. They’re weak and alone, standing up tall, already collapsed, or someplace in between, embodying what I used to be going by way of, at a time once I didn’t know if I’d lose the usage of my limbs.”
In the end the collection is about connecting by way of form, color, line, texture, gesture, and environment. Enjoying with scale to emphasise or distort these relationships, Stone explores concepts about human frailty, the passage of time, and what will be salvaged from even essentially the most difficult circumstances. See extra photos from “Embodiment” beneath!
