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Bio Susannah Hera is a Chicago-based printmaker and textiles artist focused on combining age-old print and textile techniques with technology and experimentation that results in edgy, glitched-out compositions. She has broad and extensive training in traditional and modern, experimental printmaking methods and a strong command of the fiber arts. Foremost she is an expert feltmaker, but is proficient in multiple dye techniques and other textile practices. Ms. Hera's ongoing series, 'Extremophiles' marries her vast printmaking and textiles training to illuminate the secret world of these ancient, but little understood species and mimic the patterns of their intoxicating alchemy. Ms. Hera runs Chimera Press with a focus on environmentally conscious art practices and ethically sourced studio materials; her prints, wearable art, installations, and interior design pieces clearly reflect her respectful appreciation and deep dive into the secrets of the natural world. She has volunteered a significant amount of time to many charities and non-profit organizations and served as a board officer with the Chicago Printers Guild as Assistant Director and Archivist (2015 through 2020), initiating and coordinating a multi-year project that resulted in the permanent housing of the CPG archive at Harold Washington, Special Collections. As a result of her substantial research of traditional and ancient textile customs and the restoration and preservation of natural fibers, she has a strong commitment to archival standards and continues to build her knowledge and skillset of these techniques. CV available on request. https://www.chimera-press.com/contact-2 daily 0.75 2022-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f54413b57b1151138f09345/1600400273042-2MYMO0PBGIT7P9CVQVF9/bubbles.jpeg Get In Touch With Chimera Press - Contact Please contact us at info@chimera-press.com if you have any questions or would like to make a request. 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I had imagined I would spend the longest day of the year away from noise and stupidity, marveling at these standing stones, but instead found a horde of screaming drunks puking and throwing empties and junk food wrappers at ancient monoliths. It was here I fell in love with felt. With the beautiful, historical landmark covered in garbage and the distinct smell of urine in the air, I chose to spend my time hillwalking and wandering through fields in interminable rain. It was breathtaking. I hunched over a sterno sharing food with other campers, sat on stone fences with a mix tape blasting in my ears, woke to the sounds of rain on the tent and sheep gently bleating a few feet away. While walking along one of the stone fences talking to the sheep I made my discovery. A large chunk of white wool was caught between heavy, jagged stones and I dislodged it to find it almost all one piece. All of the locks were fused together. The appearance was remarkably attractive, the tactile quality so satisfying I was instantly obsessed. I couldn't decipher how the wool fibers had bonded like this. It wasn't a matted mess of knots, it was smooth and evenly dense. Soft, but firm. I wasn't even sure if it had mites or fleas as I knew nothing about sheep, but I chose to risk it and tore off a portion of a Tesco's plastic grocery bag, wrapped the wool in it, and shoved this new treasure into my rucksack. It wasn't until six years later when I saw a wildly shaped scarf in a magazine made of a foreign material called "felt" and looked up its meaning that I solved my mystery. What had happened naturally to a sheep's wool had been harnessed and manipulated to favor human needs and creative desires for more than two thousand years. Clothing, rugs, linings for sarcophagi, and objects made purely for their beauty such as sculptures and wall hangings had been found in the Altai Mountains of Siberia in frozen caves that date as far back as 600 BCE. The moment I understood that I could recreate this exotic textile I'd found caught between rocks on the Hebrides, and even more, manipulate it to make virtually any shape, any texture, I became possessed. Since that realization I have been driven to test the limits of what wool can do, to master its nature, not to control, but to befriend it with the hope it will reveal its wily, ancient secrets to me. I have worked and trained with many of the world's foremost felters including Icelandic felt sculptor/installation artist Anna Gunnarsdottir and traditional felter Annemie Koenin. I am proud of the considerable skills I have built over nearly two decades, but I continue to study and play with wool to uncover its hidden capabilities. My enticement toward printmaking was much less dramatic. In art school I was picking courses to meet each of my college requirements. I enjoyed painting, I loved photography, but when I finally found a printmaking course that fit into my schedule, from day one, it felt like home. Etching was the strongest lure of printmaking. I loved testing how deep and inky I could make my acid grooves. I loved every meticulous detail of each and every step; the various vapors I had to protect myself from, the amber tone of the hard ground, the smell of rosin cooking, the stiff, black tarlatan. Every aspect of it was new to me and it made my fastidious heart crush hard. The crush has not waned. I am trained in intaglio, lithography, woodcut, and screen print. I have discovered that what draws me to these laborious mediums is a fascination with process. I love the physicality of each stage, of what becomes what I call "The Physical Mantra", meditation, clarity and peace, but not necessarily calm, brought on by physical movement. I aim to focus my mental and physical energy and manipulate my own senses and then manipulate the medium. While I hope the final product of my work alters the experience of my audience, my desire to manipulate my own senses is equally important. Whether it is hand rolling wet felt, pulling a screen, wiping a plate, or plying hand-spun yarn, it is the small detail, the hidden world within each intentional gesture that I am seeking. The secret world that is sitting with us in every detail is what I crave. I want to scratch it behind the ears and nudge that world forward into our field of vision. 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