Beth Kephart Sulit

Devon, PA
bind-arts.com
@bethkephartnow
“Joy Returns”
Paper monotype collage, and stitch
20” x 20”
$350
Artist Statement: This art was built of eight separate prints that I made, tore, and wove—prints made specifically for Michele. Michele is an innately optimistic person who began to question the glass half full after her breast cancer, then subsequent skin cancer (S!) diagnoses. But she returns to her faith in goodness so very many times as we talk. And so I have called this piece “in the glaze of the dawn joy returns.”

This blue is Michele’s favorite color. The hydrangea is her favorite flower. She likes a bronze patina. Her cancers have all been right there on the surface, and so I am doing that reveal here, cutting out the hydrangea leaf, revealing something beneath, then closing the leaf. The two stitched lines above that leaf represent the two journeys she has taken with the cancer.