Peace Fibres- stitching a soulful world

Serendipity has been such a strong feature of my life. When one is able to cultivate to attitude of welcome, of “yes”, one can see the connections and the offerings that the world has to give. Today was another opportunity of “yes.” While working diligently on number crunching and financial projections ( yuck!), I received a phone call from a Minnesota author wishing to see the current exhibition.

While Libbie Soffer was here, I attended Shepherd’s Harvest and she went to the Textile Center and we both met Karen Lohn, the author of Peace Fibres. Karen and her friend Katie, a contributor to the book, spent time among Libbie’s textile stories. A thoroughly delightful respite from numbers!

Textile Art by Susan Hensel

Discover the transformative textile art by Susan Hensel. Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career. She combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She also makes sculptures and wall art using the colors and techniques of commercial embroidery. These artworks are designed in the computer and stitched out on the computer-aided embroidery machine. The goal is to create an experience for the viewer that overwhelms with color and transcends the quotidian, encouraging one, for even a few seconds, to step outside the narrative of the ego into a place of pure sensation.