From the French word plié, meaning bend or fold, these plaster works were cast in molds lined with folded layers of plastic sheet before a burn/resist technique revealed dark new textures and shadows against the white plaster. The fine clarity of the creased and folded fabric within the forms belies the heft of the plaster material in each totem. They are at once delicate and heavy; diaphonous and unyielding.

Following nearly two decades of exploration into the different light and shadow effects of folded surfaces against a cast plaster medium, Suzanne has come to understand light as memory. Whereas earlier works completed in the desert of Arizona were austere and white—a parallel to the animal skeletons in the desert, white and raw, reflecting the harsh sunlight of the Southwest—these works, dark and ashen, reflect the softer overcast light, rain soaked tree trunks, and deep shadows of the Pacific Northwest rainforests.