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There are patterns in everyday nature. Self-organized systems rule the natural world. Many organisms, when magnified, reveal their elegance and abstract beauty, while their hierarchies echo the natural world in form and function.
My artwork is inspired by the visual organization of structures from their most basic forms like molecules and DNA chains, to more complex orders and structures ranging from roller coasters to bees.
Bees have an optical relationship to the outside world and a modular relationship to each other inside the beehive. Individual bees are characters in many of the paintings: their actions, dances, communication, and flight patterns become gestures; the hives they build become formal painting elements.
Bees measure distance using optic flow—how much an image appears to move as the position of the observer moves. The paintings are created and act as abstracted worlds that the bees fly in and out of.
The canvases are saturated with a color field of ink or pigment; marks and gestures are applied and removed as narrative ecosystems develop. Media, such as wax or cellulose glue, glaze, charcoal and paint, create contrasting textures.
By the way, St. Modomnoc is the Patron Saint of Bees.
Suzanne Dell’Orto
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