Borderland — Edges in Motion

B orderland feels like a meeting place — where two moods share the same surface without competing. My father continues to work the edges until they start to speak, letting color press forward and then rest. The tension here is gentle; it reads as conversation more than conflict.

In the studio, he often builds a piece by testing intervals: how far one tone can lean toward another before the balance changes. Borderland sits right in that threshold. Shapes hold their ground while allowing passage; the image breathes because the boundaries aren’t barricades — they’re crossings.

This reflection is part of the Suttles Continuum, our family’s living archive and storytelling project. Through it, we’re preserving not just the artwork, but the rhythm of an ongoing creative life — the sketches, finished works, and stories that connect generations. Each piece, including Borderland, adds another line to that story, reminding us that creativity grows at the edges.

Studio Notes

What steadies me here is the way the borders cooperate. The lift doesn’t come from a single move; it arrives from small agreements — edges yielding just enough for motion to continue.

It reminds me to treat thresholds in my own work as invitations, not walls — crossable spaces where the next choice can arrive.

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