Jacqueline Surdell

The Conversion: Rings, Rupture, and the Forest Archive

2025

This body of work investigates landscape as a site of memory, transformation, and human intervention. Constructed from industrial cordage, textiles, and steel, the sculptures translate the language of landscape painting into tactile relief, examining forests, rivers, and engineered environments as living archives that record histories of devotion, labor, conflict, and ecological change. Throughout the exhibition, weaving becomes both a method of construction and a way of thinking, where accumulation, tension, and repetition mirror the ways landscapes themselves are continually shaped and reshaped over time.


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