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Veneers And Vignettes: Staging The Mountain West, Matthew Jones
Veneers And Vignettes: Staging The Mountain West, Matthew Jones
LSU Master's Theses
Veneer (noun): An attractive appearance that covers or disguises someone or something's true nature or feelings.
Vignette (noun): A small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border.
This exhibition, Veneers and Vignettes: Staging the Mountain West embodies my pursuits to contextualize my place in the Mountain West, my home. These works seek to understand how the extents of time, circumstance, and people have shaped the contemporary cultures, environment, and implied trajectory of the decades ahead. What legacies have we imprinted upon this place and with what repercussions? I feel uneasy for my home in …