/Susan Stuart
Mary Pat Wager
Susan Stuart
STRUCTURAL CHANGE
welded steel and oil paint on canvas
40″ x 9″ x 3″
2020
Assemblage artist, Mary Pat Wager and painter, Susan Stuart did this collaborative work during COVID. As “older” artists, we followed the mandated guidelines and relied on phone calls, texting, and emails to plan this work. Never before had we witnessed such stress to our communities as during this pandemic. While experiencing the ” Pause” and the “Reopening”, we would talk on the phone about what we saw as our society’s strengths and weaknesses. We both felt that it was time to reset priorities for our society and our nation. However, we did wonder whether our nation would have the courage to make the necessary structural changes. The result of this experience is this work with the title “Structural Change”.
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