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About the Author
Susan
Lordi's inspiration comes from a love of family, closeness to friends,
and an appreciation of nature. Her art is intimate and personal, reflecting
that which helps us treasure our relationship to people and the world
around us. Besides her work in mixed media and design, she is known
for her innovative fiber art that has been exhibited internationally.
She is featured in the book Art Textiles of the World: USA, and in
an upcoming monograph in the Portfolio Collection, both by Telos Publishing.
Susan and her family live in Kansas City.
Three Blessings
Artist Susan Lordi created these elegant sculptures to represent blessings
we celebrate in our lives: peace, love and joy. The absence of wings
relates these three figures more to our everyday world and the life
experiences we enjoy. Susan presents these blessings, revealed through
serene expression, graceful tall stature and the pure beauty found in
nature.
Artist’s Comments
"Willow Tree
is an intimate, personal line of angels and figurines representing qualities
and sentiments that make us feel close to others, heal wounds, or treasure
relationships to living things.
The name Willow
Tree was chosen to symbolize that which is gestural, beckoning and romantic.
The figures are columnar in design, like a tree, and often carry flora
or fauna symbolic of human virtues or qualities.
The angels are
not meant to be cute or whimsical. They are rendered so as to suggest
elegance, simplicity, peace and serenity. The hand-carved forms reveal
their expressions through body gestures only… a tilt of the head,
placement of the hands, a turn of the body. They are sculpted without
any frills, minimum coloration and restrained from superfluous details.
The absence of facial features contributes to the quiet and modest design.
Emotions and feelings are left to the viewer to discern, which makes
them very personal and powerful. Angels carry an air of mystery to them,
therefore, the scale of the figures is small and intimate as well.
The items they
carry relate to nature, as metaphors for human qualities... rosemary
for remembrance, a bird for healing, flowers for beauty.
The figurines
are often groupings of two people, and their tender relationship to
each other. Their gestures and expression are communicative of a loving
and personal connection."
Susan Lordi
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