My tapestries are about memories and dreams, they deal with the past and the future - both real and imagined. The sense of place and my attachment to my environment are aspects of this work. I am influenced by both the physical landscape around me and the remembered landscapes that haunt me.

Many of my recent tapestries include silhouettes of anonymous figures who are surrounded by their dreams or by a landscape that merges with them. Multiple horizon lines appear in most of the images and reference that distant line between land and sky or water and sky. That horizon may never be reached but it can provoke thoughts of another time or place.

I am intrigued with the object quality of tapestries; the density of structure and color, visual and physical textures and the ability of tapestries to become three dimensional through manipulation or presentation. These tapestries are woven with silk, linen and wool - each fiber has its own unique properties and reflects light in a different way. Most of the yarns are either the natural color of the fiber or they have been hand dyed.

Susan Iverson
2008

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