​​​​​​​Susan Evans Grove

On the Hard is a series of stormy seascapes found on the side of boat hulls in dry dock. Like cave paintings, each of these vessels has recorded the storms they have traversed. Etched in their hulls these images pay tribute to the power of the sea and remind us we are not in control of nature.

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"...but their beautiful, stormy, emotionally provocative pieces suggest wide open spaces...Grove’s photographic lens captures details from the pulverized hulls of weathered ships.  Close up and stripped of context, the scrapes and dents become electrifying cityscapes; understood for what they are, they’re a commentary on the fragility of the man-made amidst the immense forces of nature." Tris McCall