Susan Lenz

The Clothesline Installation (2020) fiber installation site specific and flexible NFS Once it was common to see clotheslines pinned with household linens and family laundry. Those days seem to be gone but linger in the collective memory of forgotten ancestors. I started this installation during a Februray art residency with the Springfield Art Association in Illinois. COVID-19 was just starting to spread across the globe. My original concept was to use vintage textiles and suggest a nostalgic beauty and ease (as opposed to some community’s bans as eye-sores) while subtly promoting energy conservation and other common sense reasons to line-dry…