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My home is a TEMPLE where JUNK goes to worship!
My name is Susie Davis, aka, SooZeQue. I was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and I’m positive that is where my love for art started.
All my life I have dabbled in a variety of different art forms. I worked with clay as a young girl and always tried to draw, but never felt passionate about either one. I’ve loved working with stained glass for about 30+ years and that knowledge led me to the crystal cross bottle art I create. I have also tried my hand at creating jewelry, mosaics, and watercolor painting.
In 2005, after a year of battling ovarian cancer, and 22 years focusing on VP’s and managers as an Executive Assistant and even more years focusing on 6 kids, I decided it was time to take care of me. Life becomes real clear when the possibilities of it being over are in front of you. I quit my job and my kids had all flown the coop by then, so I found myself with plenty of time on my hands to finally delve deep into a lifelong love of creating.
In 2007, I took a welding class and was introduced to a plasma cutter. It was love at first cut and I had to have my own. That started a union between my love for junk store junking and turning all that trash into treasure. I have always recycled and I find pleasure in collecting what other people might throw away and turning it into something truly unique and different, whether as art or something for my home. I enjoy taking something like steel that is so hard and turning it into something that actually looks soft and delicate, as seen in the shovels and wheelbarrows that I cut out. The concept of life renewed fuels my inspiration.
All my work is cut freehand with a hand held plasma cutter. This journey takes me in many different directions figuring out how to use steel and making interesting and unique creations as you see in my latest endeavor of steel guitars and butterflies with old license plates.
I am a self taught artist with only a few classes under my belt. I don’t have an art degree just a love for it and I’ve often said I must have Art Attention Deficit Disorder since I’m usually creating something different as often as the seasons change.
If you see something you like email me for a quote at ....davisartwurks@cox.net.
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