Susan Fehlinger
Memoir published in Cape Cod Life, Spring 2008

“Susan Fehlinger’s pears are voluptuous. Light rests against their narrow waists as it would a body’s. Her Apples in a Black Bowl flush so furiously red that you understand not only why there are ‘apple-cheeked’ children, but why apples were chosen to symbolize sin, and female desire. This is what Fehlinger does. She focuses on the ordinary objects of our cutting boards, and imbues them with texture and dimensions that are at once surprisingly human, and surprisingly true to the familiar shapes. It is less personification than a revelation of the inherent character in a bunch of radishes, a melancholy eggplant.”