Gallery 1 | Susan Warner Keene

Dark Rebus #1

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:43:28 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), thread, pigment
Measurements: 46 cm diameter/ 18 in. diameter

Text: "Round, as yet round,

my dreams keep revolving"

- Bashō, 1694

Dark Rebus #2

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:43:28 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), thread, pigment
Measurements: 46 cm diameter/ 18 in. diameter

Text: "Round, as yet round,

my dreams keep revolving"

- Bashō, 1694

Dark Rebus #2 (detail)

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:43:28 -0400

Dark Rebus #1 (detail)

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:43:27 -0400

Reminiscence

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:28 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment, linen thread
Measurements: 32 x 97 x 3.8 cm/ 12.5 x 38 x 1.5 in.

Text: "The weedy grass called reminiscence" - Bashō, 1688

Reminiscence (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:28 -0400

Rebus #4

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:27 -0400

Date made:2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment
Measurements: 46 dia. x 3.8 cm/ 18 dia. x 1.5 in.
Collection: Private Collection
Text: "Round, as yet round, my dreams keep revolving"

- Bashō, 1694

Rebus #4 (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:27 -0400

Rebus #3

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:26 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment
Measurements: 61 dia. x 3.8 cm/ 24 dia. x 1.5 in.
Collection: Private Collection
Text: "Round, as yet round, my dreams keep revolving"

- Bashō, 1694

Rebus #3 (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:26 -0400

Rebus #2

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:25 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment
Measurements: 70 dia. x 3.8 cm/ 27.5 dia. x 1.5 in.
Text: "Round, as yet round, my dreams keep revolving"

- Bashō, 1694

Rebus #2 (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:25 -0400

Rebus #1

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:24 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment
Measurements: 71 dia. x 3.8 cm/ 28 dia. x 1.5 in.
Collection: Private Collection
Text: "Round, as yet round, my dreams keep revolving"

- Bashō, 1694

Rebus #1 (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:24 -0400

Painted Book

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:23 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), thread, pigment
Measurements: 73.7 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm/ 29 x 32 x 1 in.
Collection: Art Gallery of Northumberland, Coburg, Ontario

Text: "Like a painted book we will fade away" - Aztec poem, 16th c.

Painted Book (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:23 -0400

Lesson (after E. Dickinson)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:22 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment, cotton thread
Measurements: 81 x 46 x 3.8 cm/ 32 x 18 X 1.5 in.
Text: "Water is taught by thirst ...
Birds by the snow"
-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Lesson (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:22 -0400

Form / Emptiness

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:21 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment, thread
Measurements: 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm/ 12 x 12 x 0.75 ins
Collection: Private Collection

Text: "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form"
-The Heart Sutra

Epilogue #2

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:20 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), thread, pigment
Measurements: 53.3 x 75 x 2.5 cm/ 30 x 25 x 1 in.

Text: "A thicket of summer grass

is all that remains

of the dreams and ambitions

of ancient warriors"

- Bashō, 1694

Epilogue #2 (detail 1)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:19 -0400

Epilogue #1

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:19 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), thread, pigment
Measurements: 38 x 76 x 2.5 cm/ 15 x 30 x 1 in.

Text: "A thicket of summer grass

is all that remains

of the dreams and ambitions

of ancient warriors"

- Bashō, 1694

Epilogue #1 (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:18 -0400

Emptiness / Form

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:17 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (flax fibre), pigment, wax
Measurements: 40.6 x 61 x 1.25 cm/ 16 x 24 x 1/2 in.

Text: "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form"
-The Heart Sutra

Emptiness / Form (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:17 -0400

Bashō #3

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:17 -0400

Date made: 2007

Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment

Measurements: 28.5 dia. x 2 cm/ 11.25 dia. x 0.75 in.

Text: "Round, as yet round,

my dreams keep revolving"

- Bashō, 1694

Bashō #2

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:16 -0400

Date made: 2007

Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment

Measurements: 28 dia. x 1.3 cm/ 11 dia. x .5 in.

Text: "Round, as yet round,

my dreams keep revolving"

- Bashō, 1694

Bashō #1

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:16 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), pigment
Measurements: 28 dia. x 1.3 cm/ 11 dia. x 0.5 in.
Text: "Round, as yet round,
my dreams keep revolving"
- Bashō, 1694

Balance

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:16 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), thread, pigment
Measurements: 61 x 96.5 x 1.9 cm/ 24 x 38 x .75 in.
Text: "Knowing others is wisdom;
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force;
Mastering the self needs strength"
- Tao Te Ching, 6th c. BCE

Balance (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:15 -0400

Absence

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:15 -0400

Date made: 2007
Materials: handmade paper (abaca fibre), thread, pigment
Measurements: 53.3 x 75 x 2.5 cm/ 21 x 29.5 x 1 in.
Collection: Private Collection

Texts:
"All letters form absence...The light is in their absence which you read..."
-Edmond Jabès, Le Livre des questions, 1963
and
"Shape clay into a vessel. It is the space within that makes it useful."
- Tao Te Ching, 6th c. BCE

Absence (detail)

Mon, 04 May 2009 18:24:14 -0400