ABOUT HER WORK

Sandra Guze has an insatiable interest in materials—  natural, synthetic, domestic, and industrial,     as   well as, an affinity for their endless juxtaposition. Her process is intuitive, requiring preliminary experimentation and manipulation of material or found object.  In short, she plays with fibers and detritus.

After decades of sewing and constructing forms of cotton rag paper, she has newly discovered the medium of wax paper. Despite the technical challenges that sewing this household paper presents due to its fragile, brittle and unyielding nature, she continues to be drawn to this unremarkable paper’s remarkably poetic qualities.

Sandra notes that when she’s fortunate, this intuitive process results in introspective, metaphorical work highlighting the rigors and rituals of human relationships-- especially as seen through the mature female gaze.  And, despite that many of her pieces emanate from a deeply personal and autobiographical place, the works are meant to inspire interpretation filtered by the viewer’s experience. Most certainly, wax paper’s inherent fragility, transparency, disposability, and ethereal constitution contribute to that end.