Dark Rebus #1 ceramics 5" x 3" x 2")

5" x 3" x 2")

these works explore the visual and material presence of written language when fused with its paper support

In Diptych

with a little more perspective

Acrylic/mixed media on canvas

Dark Rebus #1 ceramics 5" x 3" x 2")This work is from Susan's ReVisions series. This work imagines language transformed into artifact through the act of writing. Informed by aspects of calligraphy, papermaking, and the history of the book, these works explore the visual and material presence of written language when fused with its paper support. Fragments of a late poem by the Japanese poet Basho, developer of the haiku form, have been inscribed in English translation, using fluid paper