Artist Statement
We live within a web of relationships — with the natural environments we inhabit, the beings who share these spaces, and with one another. Our work invites an embodied awareness of these interconnections, encouraging ways of being that are attentive, reciprocal, and rooted wherever one finds themselves.
Through installations that blend natural materials, heirloom textiles, sound, and low-tech media, we create spaces for reflection, participation, and grounding. Our work draws attention to how place shapes experience, and how rekindling ties to the land can foster deeper connections — both to the earth and to each other.
At a time when disconnection and displacement have become normalized, we offer experiences that call people back to the immediacy of their bodies, their memories, and the living systems that sustain them. We seek to influence cultural institutions and individuals alike to reconsider notions of private land ownership, individualism, and the possibilities of collective stewardship.
In every moment of attention and care, we strengthen our relationship with the earth and with each other.
Marian Lyndgaard
Marian Lyndgaard is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines interspecies relationships and the breaking down of boundaries between humans, animals, and the land. Through a combination of visual art and community engagement, they use locally sourced plant and animal materials to explore ecological connections and represent personal ties to the land. Fabric is central to their practice, symbolizing both the restoration of the prairie and the mending of fractured relationships. In addition to their studio practice, they founded a local mending circle that fosters community connection, resource-sharing, and collective repair. Marian holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and an BA in Art from the College of St. Benedict focused on Studio Art and Art Education.
Susan Snipes
Susan Snipes is an interdisciplinary artist whose media installations explore how an increasingly digital life impacts our sense of place, presence, and connection. Working across mediums that include handmade materials and low-tech media such as projection and field recordings, Susan creates environments that invite reflection and embodied presence. Her work, rooted in an awareness of the spaces we inhabit — both physical and virtual — encourages audiences to ground themselves in sensory experience and explore their roles within an interconnected reality. Susan holds an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in Art History from Case Western Reserve University. A committed community advocate, she founded a program to connect Northeast Ohio artists with local resources and created a contemporary art space dedicated to showcasing emerging conceptual artists and making art more accessible to the public.
Marian Lyndgaard
And So On and So On
Mixed textiles, 13 x 17 feet, 2025
This floor quilt transforms unusable materials with embroidered pieces representing the altered landscape of industrialized farming that has been so harmful to my family. Visitors are encouraged to take off their shoes and help tie the quilt together while experiencing the artwork.
Marian Lyndgaard
Unmapped 1
Map from personal archive, photograph, acrylic gel medium, embroidery floss, 9 x 12 inches
Piercing a physical map with tiny needle holes symbolically represents a breakdown of the larger constructs of private property.
Marian Lyndgaard
Unmapped 2
Map from personal archive, photograph, acrylic gel medium, embroidery floss, needle, 5 x 7 inches, 2023
Translucent and disrupted maps layered with family and milkweed images. Backlit on window reveals hidden layers.
Susan Snipes
Waiting For Your Response
Envelopes, ribbon, magnets, video projection of digital screenshots, mirrors, looped website posts, looped voicemail recordings, approximately 16 x 20 x 12 feet, dimensions variable
Media installation layering 150 years of communication attempts including suspended “return to sender” letters, voicemail recordings, and projected digital images that explore connection, disconnection, and the entanglement of virtual and physical spaces.
Additional documentation: https://vimeo.com/1047341814/a85942234a
Susan Snipes
Remembered Routes 2 (Study)
Artist-ground mineral pigment, beeswax, charcoal, cyanotype on paper, 2025
This is from a series of studies that trace the lost streams and earlier footpaths of Lakewood, now buried beneath modern roads. Created with local beeswax, found rocks, and artist-made charcoal, the works embed the physical place itself, reflecting layered memories and histories.
Susan Snipes
Remembered Routes 3 (Study)
Artist-ground mineral pigment, beeswax, charcoal, cyanotype on paper, 2025
This is from a series of studies that trace the lost streams and earlier footpaths of Lakewood, now buried beneath modern roads. Created with local beeswax, found rocks, and artist-made charcoal, the works embed the physical place itself, reflecting layered memories and histories.
Marian Lyndgaard
Still image from Letting Go
1 minute, 14 seconds
Marian explores leaving behind past traditions by walking barefoot with her children outside.
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Susan Snipes
Still image from Step into here, step into now
3 minutes, 27 seconds
Moving image work featuring abstract environmental visuals and audio creates a meditative journey of periodic human presence in the natural environments of Northeast Ohio.
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