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i.skåte - mixed media on paper

From attempted drawn loops, - a reminder of my first grade exercise book - to rampantly scribbled pencil hatchings, charcoal traces and characters, the paper field is covered by a left hander's illegible inscriptions and tangles of lines. The specific meaning of words disolves into stuttered, scattered and abstract transcriptions, expressive gesturing, and rages of crossing out. At the same time, the visual chatter is muted by a tender interlacing of coloration with the non-color white. Consonants, vowels, lexical items, meaning and syntax, - reminding of Roland Barthes' lure of importance - are not only rendered into the physicality of movement but also transformed into asemics, a universal language, embedded in the unconscious mind. The wet-in-wet technique and applied layers induce an illusion of depth, an ambivalence between disclosure and concealment. The landscape of figure and ground, form and emptiness, the dimension of time and space, and the sound of noise and silence merge into the present moment.

            i.skåte is a reminder of juissance, an enjoyment, of both, a realistic as well as transcendent state of freedom and of the paper's vulnarability. Digested sources and inspirations derive from the movements and works of Dada, Surrealists' propagated écriture automatique, Chinese, Japanese and Zen calligraphy, Abstract Expressionism, Cy Twombly, Roland Barthes and Hélène Cixous' écriture feminine.

Susanne Eules

2016    Solo Exhibition i.skåte, Works on Paper, Blake Elliott Gallery, DeLand,

January 5-February 29

Height x Width

+ = charcoal, lead & colored pencil, wax watercolor, tempera, oil pastel, acrylic paint on paper

* red chalk

#1: i.skåte

35" x 48" charcoal & acrylic paint; 1/31/2012                      

88,9 x 121,92 cm 

#2: yesterday : the unending incomplete                                                                                          

43" x 48" +; 4/24/2012                                                          

109,22 x 121, 92 cm

#3: pas perdus

48" x 42 1/2", +; 3/27/2012                           

121,92 x 107,95 cm

#4: fen.être.s

50 1/2" x 35", +; 4/22/2012                           

128,27 x 88,9 cm

#5: exercise : daily

56 2/3" x 48"; =*; 2/11/21012                                               

143,51 (ca) x 121,92 cm

#6: my.røck.ern

55 2/3 " x 48", +; 2/18/2012                          

140,97 x 121,92 cm

#7: winter I

45 2/3" x 48", +; 2/7/2012                             

115, 57 (ca) x 121,92 cm

#8: winter II

36" x 48", +; 2/11/2012                                 

91,44 x 121,92 cm

#9: y

41 1/2" x 46", +; 3/28/2012                                                   

105,41 x 116,84 cm

#10: untitled

67" x  48", wax crayon, wax watercolor, pencil, acrylic paint on paper 3/17/2017

170 x 122 cm