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Life can often seem like an unending tug in all directions, a constant movement from one state, emotion, or thought to another. But, all these changes, or at least our perception of this process, exist in a physical world. It is the belief of the artist that this relationship between physical perception and the intellectual or intuitive response is like time: the feeling of change, often directed at answering the great “Why?” and “How?” As an artist, Hendo creates work that explores this liminal space, a universal state of action between one and the next, and our own relationship to the nature of perception: what we see, what we feel, and how we understand the existence of our surroundings. The result of such explorations has led to studies in the language of geometry, patterns, and iconography, as well as the philosophy of perception put forth by American Indigenous thinkers like N. Scott Momaday and Western rational philosophers such as Benedict De Spinoza and Immanuel Kant.

 

In her works of “Intuitive Sight”, the reciprocal relationship between pattern and form aim to highlight the action of negative space as analogous to the genesis of understanding, while her “common threads” series aims to fill that space. In presenting this work, the artist highlights the role of the viewer as both receiver and creator of image, left to ponder the “true” relationship between time and space and our own role within it.

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Intuitive Sight:

This collection of prints deals with the intersection of tangible perception and internal process by exploring the reciprocal relationship between pattern and form. Imagery of the sun and the eye allude to intellect or light shed upon the tangible world, while imagery of the moon alludes to intuition and the cyclical nature of femininity. Among these tangible forms lies actionable space  (often thought of as "negative space"). Perhaps between what we "see" is the space of motion or, in essence, the movement of time and existence itself.

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All Seeing 

2019, woodcut mosaic print,  $200

All Seeing consists of 16 individual prints united by their common edges into a kind of tessellate mosaic. This work operates much like Islamic tile in portraying an unknowable greatness in non-Iconic or indirect imagery. The form of an eye lies in the center of a star, alluding to imagery of the all-seeing eye, a symbol of truth and highest knowledge. Individually, one tile could not create a full and clear image, but in the pattern of all, greater form appears and can be better understood; there is knowledge in this.

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Cycle

2019, intaglio triptych,  NFS, individual prints $100 each

Cycle is a work exhibiting process, pattern and formal relationships. Both the intuitive moon and the intellectual eye remain independent in shared space, connected, and mimic each other in form. The overall image is almost like a keyhole – a point of as access as well as a barrier to entry.

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Formidable Patterns 

2019, intaglio mosaic print,  $300

Formidable Patterns consists of 18 individually printed “tiles” that, in union, create a pattern with the ability to continue infinitely from each of the four sides of an individual tile. The work is at once highly organized and chaotic to the eye, which might bounce from element to element, unsure where to look. The relationship among the tiles creates both an endless pattern and complete form.

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permeable form 

2019, serigraphy on acetate,  NFS

Hexagonal fields of pattern unite to form the illusion of cubes and three-dimensional forms. The transparency of permeable form casts shadows onto the wall behind the piece, creating a tangible relationship to its surroundings and to the viewer. As one moves about the piece and changes their perspective in relation to the object, the shadows appear to move, creating new images through time from an unmoving object. Viewers may reflect on the role of one’s own perspective in the “facts” of reality.

Common Threads:


This series of monotypes is the result of intuitive process rather than intellectual program. Each print utilizes a field of blue; a color often considered one of tranquility, and among this exists a field of chaos literally ripped from reality. The confusion of line, form, and meaning are united in common threads of gold, like the traces of success or truth.

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common thread 1

2019, monotype, SOLD

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common thread 2

2020, monotype, $140

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common thread 3

2020, monotype, $140

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