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You’Ll Find No Answers Here, Joseph M. Morelli

Joseph M Morelli

A thesis on one art grad student’s inability to understand how we can possibly order and classify nature, but loving natural history collections all the same; It’s about not knowing a whole lot about anything, really, but trying desperately to figure things out anyway.

I fabricate sculpture in order to construct my own systems of classification. I construct collections to assuage my growing anxiety with regard to being in a constant state of utter bewilderment and in sheer awe of the natural world.In doing so, I chronicle a very small slice of the interactions that happen between the disciplines of …