Suzette Mouchaty

My artworks tend to be quirky responses to social, political and environmental concerns.  My background in science influences much of what I do as an artist.  The concepts for my artworks tend to come from my preoccupation with things that rankle or disturb.  Strong emotion is filtered through my sense of irony as I develop an idea by exploring context and reexamining associations.  Occasionally this results in a mental image of an artwork that I then create, but usually my process is more protracted, with ruminations yielding hazy ideas that won’t come into focus until I interact directly with raw materials or found objects and images.  I find this process of exploration compelling.  I’m driven by the attraction of materials and the tactile experience of transforming them into objects imbued with meaning.  I don’t try to answer questions with my art.  Each piece is a perspective, a door into a thought.  Ultimately, my aim is to make objects that are indeterminate yet sustaining and accessible.