A sequence based mostly 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 and derive worth out from detritus in an effort to ascertain a way of concord in a dissonant and more and more fragile world. The undertaking 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’s 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 straight with what attracts my consideration within the exterior world. They’re susceptible and alone, standing up tall, already collapsed, or someplace in between, embodying what I used to be going by, at a time after I didn’t know if I’d lose the usage of my limbs.”
Finally the sequence is about connecting by form, color, line, texture, gesture, and ambiance. Enjoying with scale to emphasise or distort these relationships, Stone explores concepts about human frailty, the passage of time, and what may be salvaged from even essentially the most difficult circumstances. See extra photographs from “Embodiment” under!