![Susan McCaslin | "Coats" at West Cove Gallery, West Haven CT | June 2014](https://westvillect.org/sites/default/files/styles/header_photo_inset/public/businesses/MCCASLIN2_COATS_Mixed%20Media1.jpg?itok=CiTxybca)
I am interested in protective spaces, both physical and emotional. In landscape, these spaces are created by trees, rocks and boulders meeting each other or meeting the ground. In a winter landscape, because the leaves have fallen, these relationships are visible, unhidden. My work also references objects and artifacts – mementos, small items, ephemera – the spaces they occupy – shelves, boxes, cubbies.