Brainstorm

Our brains process information, regulate bodies, solve problems, and create a seamless flow from one experience to the next by continuously multitasking. Virtually all of this happens outside the stream of consciousness. “Brainstorming” is just bringing our attention to the power that we all have, but use so sparingly. The inspiration and form of this piece comes from the phenomenon of soliton waves. First described in 1834 by John Scott Russell as a “wave of translation” that he observed in a canal in Scotland. In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a self-reinforcing solitary wave that maintains its shape while…

Outside In

September 19, 2017April 17, 2018 Categories: projects blogTags: Bespoke Furniture · Contemporary Furniture · Custom Furniture · Fine Woodworking · Furniture · Garrett Hack · NH Furniture Masters · Painted Furniture · projects blog · studio furniture · Vermont

Outside In by Garrett Hack in collaboration w/ Carolyn Enz Hack 2017 Bill Truslow photo Outside In is a commissioned piece that Garrett and I spent many hours dreaming about. Our clients gave us free reign to create our best piece with a focus on Garrett’s exceptional ability to blend shockingly difficult engineering with forty years of practice in his craft. While we spent many an hour discussing design, once we had a path it was all Garrett’s ingenuity that brought the piece from mock-up through to the final tiny decorative details. Wood curves in all directions both outside and…

Change Your Mind

January 29, 2017June 19, 2018 Categories: projects blogTags: abstract · Art Installation · Brattleboro Museum of Art · Change Your Mind · Conceptual Sculpture · exhibition · Fine Art · Installation Art · Metaphoric Sculpture · projects blog · Sculpture · Vermont

“Enz Hack’s beguiling work perfectly accomplished it’s aim of disrupting the usual patterns of perception and offering an opening to a world beyond.” B Amore Sculpture magazine Dec 2017 photos by Joshua Farr Process photos below the commentary Scale, Tornado, Creature, Comma, Fish, Consciousness. How are things held together? How is social cohesion accomplished? How do we examine our thoughts? How are we conscious of our thoughts? How can abstract thought lead to concrete objects? How are our thoughts held together? Why do things feel solid to us? What are emotions? Why does our nervous system run…

Five Bridges, Six Dams - Springfield, Vermont Carolyn Enz Hack acrylic on linen 36x28” 2016

Vermont Landscape Through Time

April 24, 2014December 29, 2019 Categories: projects blogTags: abstract · architecture · Barre · Caspian Lake · Ely Copper Mine · exhibition · Fine Art · Greensboro · Greensboro Vermont · Landscape · main street museum · Northeast Kingdom · Paper · railroad days · Rural Life · Rural Town · Springfield · Studio PLace Arts · Thetford Center · tip top bakery · Tunbridge · Tunbridge World's Fair · Vermont · Vermont History · Vershire · Water · waterbury vermont · White River Junction

“Carolyn Enz Hack’s powerful mixed media paintings also document a Vermont whose fortunes have ebbed and flowed through time.” Sheryl Trainor, “East Meets West”, Art New England, Sept/Oct 2016 My first studio was in the TipTop building in White River Junction, Vermont. When the English settlers first arrived in this part of North American they used the frozen Connecticut River as a highway to reach further into what was then “Kings Land”. This was land that was reserved for the English Crown as a place to harvest the giant White Pine trees for masts for the enormous warships of the…

Painting VaVa Vienna

March 2, 2013April 17, 2018 Categories: projects blogTags: Bespoke Furniture · Custom Furniture · fine furniture · Fine Woodworking · Garrett Hack · NH Furniture Masters · Painted Furniture · studio furniture · Vermont

VaVaVienna 68x26x16“ collaboration with Garrett Hack When Garrett approached me to collaborate on a piece of furniture I was hesitant. I had contributed to several of his previous pieces by painting small panels or columns with faux finishes of marble, malachite, or lapis lazuli but this time he wanted me to freehand a pattern for the front of curved cabinet that he was planning on building in rosewood. He was confident that we could create a design that would give this rather formal piece a lively persona. He handed me a small sketch of a few squiggles and dots and…