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.