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The Heirloom As Evidence: Investigating The Colonial Trace Preserved Within My Family’S Sandalwood Box, Olivia Meehan
The Heirloom As Evidence: Investigating The Colonial Trace Preserved Within My Family’S Sandalwood Box, Olivia Meehan
Pitzer Senior Theses
This paper accompanies my senior art exhibition Picturing the Colonial Trace. Pulling from a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars, I theorize the practice of critical white auto-ethnography through visual interrogations of family heirlooms. The heirloom as evidence holds within its form a colonial trace. I investigate this trace through my creative practice, revealing the environmental, economic, and interpersonal histories of the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. My art disrupts my family’s narrative of a benevolent British Empire and redirects attention to the silences of my family archive. This thesis proposes a potential model for white scholars of Environmental …
Humans, Elizabeth Ferguson
Humans, Elizabeth Ferguson
Pitzer Senior Theses
Artists' book utilizing cross disciplinary media.
It's Important For Me To Get Good Light. Or "Things Which Are Happening", Elizabeth Ferguson
It's Important For Me To Get Good Light. Or "Things Which Are Happening", Elizabeth Ferguson
Pitzer Senior Theses
Artists' book utilizing cross disciplinary media.
Representaciones De Figuras Feministas En La Muestra Despierta!, Kathryn Lane
Representaciones De Figuras Feministas En La Muestra Despierta!, Kathryn Lane
Pitzer Senior Theses
Elizabeth Waltenburg es una artista contemporánea argentina. En su muestra, despierta!, las obras en óleo sobre tela representan a mujeres, niños y animales en fondos extraños y deprimidos. Ella utilize simbolismo de animales y figuras femeninas para discutir el feminismo actual. Ella trabaja en un tiempo complicado por el feminismo, el postfeminismo, la critica de ambos, y un sistema de comunicación global. Su trabajo marca una tendencia hecho por la confusión de todos estos movimientos. Esta tesis discute su trabajo en el contexto de la historia de representaciones de mujeres, de niños y de animales para llegar a una mejor …