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Earth Our Body: Expanding Ecofeminism With The Divine, Isolde Finney
Earth Our Body: Expanding Ecofeminism With The Divine, Isolde Finney
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
If the Earth is Divine, then is harming Her not sacrosanct? If She is a god, or rather goddess, then is pollution, deforestation, climate change, and environmental degradation not blasphemy? Divinity and sacredness can be used to define societal values and ethics. In this body of work, I bring my experiences and beliefs as a practicing Pagan to the concepts of ecofeminism, a social and academic movement started in the 1970’s that sees a connection between environmental degradation and the oppression of women. I call my work Divine Ecofeminist Art. It attempts to utilize goddess imagery and nature worship as …
Translating Between Paintings And Sweaters, Eliza Caperton
Translating Between Paintings And Sweaters, Eliza Caperton
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
My art is the process of translating non-visual phenomena such as emotions and memories into a visual language built from shape, form, and, especially, color. The visuals draw from places rich with personal history. I first explored this through painting and drawing, but in January my material understanding, and the works’ broader implications were reconstructed after tearing my ACL. I discovered knitting first as a form of therapy, then soon after as a material that brought new meaning to my artistic endeavors. Knitting taught me lessons about gesture, gender, color, and craft, that then led me back to painting.
My …
Sculpture As Memoir, Tirzah Reed
Sculpture As Memoir, Tirzah Reed
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
Questions guide my art practice, so they naturally guide the structure of this thesis.
Remember?
If I remember, what then?
What makes a memoir?
What is the work made of?
Nouns and adjectives—why have both?
What’s the role of sound?
How does the form of installation relate to memoir?
How do we take an installation from situation to story?
What happens in the studio?
What gets me to the studio in the first place?
What matters?
Objects have power. They hold the histories of their owners—or if they have not had previous owners, they at least carry the connotations of …