Rebecca Rafferty
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
September 2, 2009
Susan Larkin captures the elegant forms of dry plant husks and other natural structures, bereft of color and dramatically lit. Isolated in a void of empty space, they bear the dormant potential of new life in their abundance of seeds. “Echinocystis lobata (Wild Cucumber)” is a spiny, broken-egg form, the complex workings of dark vessels visible in the paper-thin skin, and the whole composition lending the feeling of an alien, organic zeppelin hovering in space.