Exquisitely detailed, this earthenware paper clay sculpture is part of a new series by Canadian artist, Susan Collett. The work is richly textured in subtle hues of blue, creamy white and black.

Collett’s ‘Laden’ series is designed to explore the tension between order and chaos. (In Greek mythology, the word ‘elysium’ refers to the afterlife as a place where pure and heroic souls are sent by the gods.)“The uprooted clusters, clay and nichrome wire draw the delicacy of tributaries, root and branch formations that I am drawn to. Palisade & Elysium culminate in blooms, a notion of light coming out of darkness; analogous to life being cumulative, inevitably changing, never quite finished, unable to be ordered or tidied, messy and chaotic but not without beauty. These petrified scenics are contemplations on life’s cycle of renewal.” Susan Collett

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