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Sights-Of-Interest: Denial Of Danger In Living Spaces, Rachel Lambert
Sights-Of-Interest: Denial Of Danger In Living Spaces, Rachel Lambert
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Exploring the illusion of protection, I constructed a fiber-based installation to recreate the experience of photographing outside and inside living spaces. This body of work is about the allure of the photographic experience. It is about the experience of seeing, noticing, and thinking that occurs while looking through the camera’s viewfinder. It is about unconsciously ignoring the physical dangers that live in the picturesque land photographed.
In response, I created a two room installation. Two household living rooms are staged as conceptual “living spaces.” One room simulates a damp swamp floor; and the other, the interior of a warm-blooded body. …