Embrace the Field
Completed
2025
Medium
Dried plants gathered from our field by the lake, with old garden stakes (that would otherwise have been thrown away) and torn, naturally dyed bed sheets collected from the Chautauqua community.
Dimensions
30 x 60 x 10"
Cost
$600
Description
Embrace the Field is a call to take an Inside/Outside look at our yards. Instead of grass-that we fertilize and spray with pesticides, and then cut every week with mowers filled with gasoline, can we instead consider leaving our yards filled with wildflowers and uncut grasses? Fields support biodiversity, especially pollinators and birds, and help decrease water and resource consumption. Especially for those of us with yards around the lake, let’s embrace the fields.
My artist practice includes going out and paying attention to the natural world. I work with natural, found materials, and I engage with people in the community-having conversations about the meaning embedded in bed sheets where we rest, when we sleep, as we dream. Accessing our subconscious selves to connect with nature and with each other. Appreciating and bringing inside the textural beauty of nature, showcasing our healing connection with the natural world and creating in a way that conserves and protects it.
About this Artist
Susan Watters
Suzanne Watters has always had an interest in creative experimentation. She has taken many art classes throughout her life, including printmaking classes at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (and studied with a number of master printmakers at Artist Image Resource in Pittsburgh). She has a master’s degree in 20th century art history from Harvard University. Suzanne is inspired by nature, and she considers that to be one of the best teachers. Ms. Watters’ work has been represented by a number of local galleries. As a History of Visual Communications professor at Robert Morris University, her prints were included in 2015 and 2016 faculty shows. She had a solo show at The Christine Frechard Gallery, in June of 2017. Her work has been included in shows at the Kellogg Fowler Art Center at the Chautauqua Institution in the summers 2014-2019, and it is a part of a number of corporate…
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