Encaustic Sculpture

 

Tangents, aluminum foil, plaster, encaustic, leather harness

During the second half of last year I spent a good deal of time experimenting with encaustic paint on three dimensional surfaces. Out of this process two finished works emerged and I've finally gotten around to photographing them for the website. This Spring I'll set up my window box fan to expel those pesky wax fumes and get to work on some more of these encaustic sculptures.

Convolution, epoxy resin, plaster, encaustic, artificial sinew, fabric, chain, fishing weight

 

Shafts & Glands

An evolution of glandular shapes and biomorphic shafts, this family of Fiber Forms has been reproducing, and I've added several new ones to the website. 

I am thinking of the intricate web in/of our reproductive bodies and throughout the natural world. A tangle of coital life, I explore the animate and inanimate alike--whether ovaries, stamens, mammary glands or ancient fertility fetishes, modern sex toys and contraceptive devices. 

Through these forms I seek to meld the visual pleasures of knots and knobs with the endless labyrinth of time and sensual memory through repetitive twisting, wrapping and stitching. 

Read more about the process of creating these Fiber Forms.

Pink Palette

In need of a wider variety of peachy-pink material for my series of Fiber Forms and other studio experiments, I've turned to an unlikely source--avocado pits. After searching online for what natural dyes would lend my desired palette I came across this recipe and proceeded to buy/eat avocados for weeks. Unfortunately I'm the only one in the family who likes them so I collected them in the freezer til I had enough to make a full dye pot. I boiled eight pits for this batch of old linen scraps, stained cotton doilies and cheese cloth. The aged whites and creams were transformed into a subtle palette of the fleshy pink textures. I was more than pleased with the outcome and have already started stitching with my new stash.

A video posted by Suzanna Scott (@suzanna_scott) on Aug 16, 2016 at 9:11am PDT

A Dripple

The sun-faded pink door caught my eye, and I stopped to take a closer look. For some reason this color has begun to resonate with me in a way it has never done in the past. I find it creeping into my work, and I gravitate towards its supple allure when I'm out and about.

My eyes grazed the door for a closer look at the roughly painted facade, and I spotted a substantial drip on the bottom right hand corner. Drips and drops speak to me. The form of the drop and the action of a drip frozen in time is a theme I've been exploring recently. I took note that this particular drip resembled the shape of a breast with a nipple (a dripple perhaps?), and I clicked the shutter to capture its descent.