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You Are What You Wear: A Vital Materialism Of Textiles, Walter J. Greenleaf Iv Aug 2023

You Are What You Wear: A Vital Materialism Of Textiles, Walter J. Greenleaf Iv

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Intermedial artworks are deemed effective when they draw from the roots of the most basic, universal elements of materiality, concept, sensation, and/or experience, melding disparate elements into an inextricable novelty. As hybrid artifacts, they take up an unusual degree of substance in one dimension or another, and can at times be difficult to categorize, describe, or document. Nonetheless, the potential for intermedial expressions to resonate with their viewership is strengthened by the depths to which the artist ventures, and through such a process the most far-reaching and complexly interconnected issues of our time can be made approachable on the personal …