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Sweet Relief, Aaron Feltman
Sweet Relief, Aaron Feltman
Masters Theses
Relief holds both an emotional and a physical connotation; both the lifting of a burden or emotional baggage and the description of an object with forms that protrude from a planar surface. This thesis explores the ways in which these connotations can co-mingle and inform each other through the creation of hand-carved wooden reliefs. The relief becomes a vessel through which an emotional connection can be formed between viewer and maker by way of a shared sense of labor.
Wood, a material grown from the earth, is transformed into an entirely human-created form, the car; embodying the just-as-human desire for …