Website: https://www.sudierakusin.com/
Being an animal activist and feminist, my artwork flows from what moves me and from where I find beauty: women, animals, the earth, color, pattern, and light. My art represents the deep connection I feel with these elements. Through my artwork I create a world as I would like it to be, where harmony exists between animal and human, and where nature thrives. Art is where I go for refuge, replenishing, and how I pay homage to what sustains me. In my cold wax paintings, the properties of this medium fascinate me and keep me curious; how the underlying layers inform and alter the layers applied over them, how incising and scraping and glazing make more changes. I know I am wielding the palette knife and mixing the colors, but what happens on the panel is beyond my control. I’m learning how to be fine with the state of ‘not knowing’. In my 3-D paintings I test the boundaries of what a “painting” is. They are created on a free form canvas and involve papier-mâché sculpture, beadwork, and mixed media.