SUSAN BLOCH
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Susan Bloch

mixed-media sculptor specializing in glass with writing

A Stone's Throw - New Beginnings

5/18/2020

 
I took a traumatic experience in my life and created a body of work called transition and change. I wanted to work with it because it held power and it mirrored societal events. We see upheaval and renewal all around us.

I had been doing labor intensive, glass carving. I found it meditative. Now I had too much pent up energy. It needed release. It needed direction. This particular day, I arranged thick glass on a table, threw a rock at it to watch it crack. Its harsh melodic ring echoed through the studio. It felt exhilarating. It was no longer one large piece. It was myriad pieces with many more possibilities. It led me to opportunities I didn't then imagine.

Since then I've worked with broken and cut pieces of glass, color, enamels. glass paints. I am interested in reforming the old into the new, while retaining evidence. I use brokenness to evolve, develop, transform. It opens me to the future, lets me accept the past. It reminds me of our beginning. An incredible evolutionary process brought the earth and oceans into being. Who knows what's possible!

Speechless

8/28/2014

 
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Sooner or later we all lose our innocence.  Usually, it takes us by surprise and leaves us speechless. We continue to learn lessons throughout our lives.

This is lost innocence, found knowledge, and the gift of overcoming challenges.

It is also a bird and a child with a feather floating over her mouth;

It is what you perceive; what the child felt as she captivated my attention and the feelings in me making it.

It is the large glistening glass of water which glowed between the little girl and me while we were both watched the bird.



Listening - in process

7/3/2014

 
I began working on this piece knowing it will be called “Listening” and that the men are wise. It was only later I suspected its connection to my father. I thought the glass was dictating what it wanted. The 9mm layers of translucent and opaque Bullseye seemed almost didactic to me.

When my family and I went out to celebrate my parents’ anniversary I noticed my father’s dramatic ears.  I was taking photographs against the magnificent Trinidad, California sunset.  I had already discarded the boring photographs of my ears. My fathers’ practically jumped up and waved at me, as if to divulge what my subconscious long knew.

His ears border an incredible intelligence, poetic mind, a skeptical sensibility and affable humor.  Because of his WWII duties as a navigator in a B24 he has difficulty hearing. 

His listening, and our speaking with him; have a unique character. There are many relationships we all have where voice is not our main means of communication. Often the communication is deeper and clearer.


My attention is riveted by sensory abilities, often enhanced by disability. ---- The only reason I use the word disability is to use a recognizable term.  With this piece, I am exploring the depths of listening.

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Listening, Glass carving in process, 18"h x 16"w x 1/2"
rubber resist on, the white is glass being carved.

    Art, Glass & Life

    I'm a sculptor working  in glass. I look at life metaphorically. This led to writing poetry and an exploration of its possibilities in glass. Poetry allows the inclusion of small bits and pieces of  life, the way glass allows the fusion of small bits of color. Together they've become a powerful part of my life that I'm happy to share with you here.

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  • Susan Bloch, Artist
  • Poetic Sculpture
  • Transition
  • Glass Carvings
    • Renewal
  • About
    • Statement
    • Process
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • CV