“Cloud of Unknowing” by Susan Austin
Due to an illness, when I could not write, this art box became a way for me to communicate. The title comes both from H.L. Humes philosophy that lenticular clouds are spiritual beings, and from the Christian mystical text, The Cloud of Unknowing.
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Susan Austin Artist Statement:
Susan Austin lives in the Teton foothills in Felt, Idaho, but she calls the ocean her first home
where she grew up mucking in Chesapeake mud. She was a Michener Fellow at University of
Texas in Austin. She worked as a wildlife biologist on endangered species projects from the
Northwest Hawaiian Islands to the Snake River of Idaho. She built her one room house with her
husband out of salvaged materials. Now she is building a new life out of salvage following a
chronic illness. Words abandoned her for a time, but as they returned they returned spirited, full
of the wildness she loves so much in nature.
