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Excerpts from catalogue essay from show “Objects of Personal Significance” by Jan Marquardt
Susan’s Abbott's tables are about the moments left untold. We try to trace the progress of events, but our eye cannot stop moving, witnessing the windswept activity that created the arrangement, drawn across the surface by the diagonal lines, spots of pattern, and overlapping layers. We wonder who this hidden person is, making such a wonderful clutter. We scrutinize the envelopes for an addressee. Seeing the artist’s name, intrigued by the postage stamps, we try to discern a secret in the pale script. A fragment from Wordsworth appears: “...as I cast my eyes, I see what was, and is, and will abide; still glides the stream, and shall forever glide. The form remains, the function never dies.”
Blue Sky, White Flowers is an imaginary composition, brought together one object at a time, studied from life, using the risky watercolor medium-which allows no reworking-to record it. Small parts are multiplied to form patterns, bouquets, trompe-l’oeil and ironic juxtapositions. While the image is idealized, it implies the spontaneous process of life. Their color draws us in. There is no light source; it seems to come from the very objects themselves, heightening our appreciation of their mundane forms.
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