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Artistic Process


On a Visual Language Taking Form
One painting was made in 2011. The two others are from 2024 and 2025. It is a long span of time, enough for a visual language to change. “Hopp” (2011) was painted before there was a method. Starting was uncertain. The acrylic resisted. The colors slid or broke, and the attempt to soften transitions became a struggle. There were no direction and no decisions, only action and frustration. Only when I stepped back did a form appear. A bird pushed out of the color fields and I ma
Susanne Broända
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Seeing Before Words
On perception, artistic method, and pre-verbal ways of seeing For a long time, I took my way of perceiving the world for granted. I assumed that most people see connections, structures, and meaning in roughly the same way. Only recently have I come to understand that my way of seeing and working is not self-evident, but fundamental to how my artistic practice takes shape. When new works take shape for me, they rarely appear as ideas in a verbal sense. Instead, they emerge as
Susanne Broända
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