Video Art with themes of Biking, Roses, Forest and Plants
Five sections/galleries featuring digital and analogue artworks. The imagery uses my own face in multiple methods. Most recent work melds my face with natural elements and with AI generated characters. These images explore concepts of identity and understanding of self.
Self Portrait Artwork created with iPhone and iPad. Being female, aging, woman, in US culture, is a challenge. As we age women are expected to take less and less of an allowed presence. We are relegated to granny, old woman, invisible, shrinking, softening form. We are assumed to be a mere portion of our full self. We must, if we want to be seen fully, set into a battle for control of our own opinion and our own body. In “Portrait of a Woman” I declare ownership of self and space. I declare my experience valid, strong and bold. I assert the person I am and the iconic figure I become in asserting my place. I am now seer, knower of the world. I am- one who envisions, experiences, feels, tells all. I take a rightful place in the world of knowing and experience. I am she who speaks her truth. I am one who others look to for understanding and inspiration. I am: She who is in alliance with forest, flora, river, leaf, mountain, city, water, animal, insect, bird, all living. Sldetroy©2019
Trailers, Videos, Films created in our Pandemic by Susan Detroy, (c)sldetroy2020
Art creating during our Pandemic. I offer you my experience in my self reflection and my view out to the world.
Images of land, sky, buildings and water, created with iPhone and iPad and infrared film.
Reimagining Images of My Sister Betsy. Digital paintings using iPhone and iPad, creating a pathway for my loss and grief after her death. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.” Washington Irving
A gallery of art I created for others. Commissioned pieces using my signature digital art techniques using historical and current images and treasured objects.
Artworks gathered for commission
Views from bridges, platforms along the Willamette River mostly created with iPhone and iPad
Digitally painted Images of flowers, leaves, plants
Transfer paintings, created with photographic transfers, mixed media. Celebrating the worship of Dragonfly and Cactus.
Infrared images from my years using analog infrared film.
Using digital and handmade art combining into a new creation. Reaching deep into my past finding inspiration in art created by hand and infusing it with new feeling using digital applications.
Hand designed artwork created in response to life threatening illness, using pen and ink. sldetroy(c)2020
Abstract Paintings chronicling early childhood trauma. Early non-photographic artwork.