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All That We See(M), Alison H. Vanvolkenburgh
All That We See(M), Alison H. Vanvolkenburgh
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
Born open-eyed, ready to take stock of our surroundings from the first breath, no other sense so largely informs our understanding of the world as sight. The ability to visually process our environment may seem extremely straightforward to those long accustomed to its instinctive use. However, there is more to seeing than the pure mechanics of visual perception. Since we live, not in a static environment, but one of constant change and motion, our knowledge of the world around us comes in fragments, shifting flashes of color, shape, and movement that coalesce through the active process of vision. In these …
Stitching As Knowing: Mapping Nebraska With Textiles And Thread, Elizabeth Ingraham
Stitching As Knowing: Mapping Nebraska With Textiles And Thread, Elizabeth Ingraham
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity
Mapping Nebraska is a drawn, stitched and digitally imaged cartography of the state (physical, social, cultural, sociological) where I live. The interrelated components of this on-going project are:
- A 15 foot wide hand-drawn “Locator Map” of Nebraska, with every city, town, park, railroad, river, lake and creek drawn to scale on 95 Tyvek sections which were then stitched together.
- Terrain Squares, quilted and embroidered fabric relief forms of the physical topography of selected locations, using software to be able to see the terrain at a much larger scale (1 inch = 596 feet) than the Locator Map.
- Surveys, or on-the-ground …