Entanglement
Sue Hettmansperger

GALLERY II

October 5 - October 29, 2011

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 6-9 pm

Entanglement is Walking the line between abstraction and representation, the imagery of this series traces fragments from the interior of the human body, botany, digital distortion, and manufactured objects, collapsing their boundaries. The internal rationale of the forms and images shift and are transformed, as though influenced by mathematical principles of topology (rubber-sheet geometry). Resulting hybrid chimera-like images acknowledge the present ethos of genetic and digital manipulation, reflecting the complex relationship of humans to their environment. This artwork seeks to mirror a current cultural perspective in which boundaries between organisms are increasingly blurred, and our awareness of digitally altered images makes us question the truthfulness of everything we see in visual culture. Foregrounding the interdependence of human and botanical, organic and inorganic systems in a conflicted embrace, this series provokes thought about cultural attitudes and perceptions of our place within nature.

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