Wendy Collin Sorin

  • Home
  • About
  • Work
    • Drawing
      • Form Constants
      • Balancing Act
    • Collage
      • Shared Memory
      • do (not)
      • Querida
      • Melodious & Progressive Studies
      • functional shift
    • Mixed Media
      • Symbols
      • give me your answer, do
      • CAUTION
      • Vienna sketchbook
      • WHETHER
    • Artist Books
    • Film
  • Selected Resume
  • Contact
  • Work
  • Drawing
  • Collage
  • Mixed Media
  • Artist Books
  • Film

Form Constants

20″ x 26″
ink on Basingwerk

Ohio Arts Council interview with the artist

My work has been inspired by several conceptual and formal concerns. I have a background in textiles and weaving and have always had an attraction to geometric patterning, fields and structures. Earlier drawings were based on the idea of safety nets – both literally and figuratively. Each drawing begins with a grid of interlocking pentagons and substructures of triangles, chevrons, squares, Xs and diagonals. Drawn in freehand, the forms accumulate intuitively in a way that responds to influences of process, time, and life. More recently, the drawings have been informed by the migraine auras that I occasionally experience — shimmering, expanding zigzags of colors. The underlying grid structure of the current body of work has been simplified to interlocking squares and titled “form constants”, a term coined by Gestalt psychologist Heinrich Kluver, to refer to geometric hallucinations.

form constants 01
form constants 02
form constants 03
form constants 04
form constants 05
form constants 06
form constants 07
form constants 08
form constants 09
form constants 10
form constants 11
form constants 12
form constants 13
form constants 14
form constants 15
form constants 16
form constants 17
form constants 18
form constants 19
form constants 20

Copyright © 2023 Wendy Collin Sorin • All Rights Reserved • Site design by Makeworthy Media