This painting is from Susie Dureau’s Earth Poems series, a sensory ode to the forces of nature, inviting viewers to experience the profound and nuanced interplay between the natural world and human existence. Each of Susie’s paintings is a new world where personal feeling and perception merge seamlessly with the external processes of the earth. Impressions of tides, light, and weather intertwine with the cyclical rhythms of heartbeat and breath, revealing patterns and connections between the ancient flows of the earth and the flows of the human body.

Says Susie of this work, “In Call My Name, pulsing striations in this artwork represent the pulse of summer cicadas as seen on a spectrograph. It is very similar to the rhythmic pulse of the human circulatory system.”