Artwork Description
Suzanne Kane – Winter
Dimensions: 17 x 32 x 20″ sculpture
Year: 2024
Medium: ceramic and steel
When I first moved to Las Cruces New Mexico 25 years ago, I didn’t think much of the desert. It seemed like a great expanse of khaki wasteland. The beauty of the desert slowly revealed itself to me. and I’m now proud to say that my work is inspired by the Chihuahua Desert. This landscape can often appear inhospitable, yet it is full of weird and wonderful growing things that look delicate from a distance but are tough and wicked up close. The sculptural plants I make are informed by this vegetation that endures and survives despite a harsh climate. I build my pieces by blending welded steel with mid-fire stoneware, embracing a metaphor that is about resilience, persistence, toughness, durability, tenacity, and adaptability.