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I Want To Go Home, Amber Boris
I Want To Go Home, Amber Boris
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
The significance of a home lies within the memories of the space. I Want to Go Home is a body of work that explores this idea through a collection of sculptures and drawings depicting my childhood home. This house holds meaning to me not only because it is where I grew up, but because it was also my mother’s childhood home. Six generations of our family have passed through the house, creating a long history of associated stories, memories, and emotions.
I have constructed scaled down sculptures of rooms for these memories to live in. The spaces are left empty, …
Tomorrow Is The Worst Day Since Yesterday, Matthew Carlson
Tomorrow Is The Worst Day Since Yesterday, Matthew Carlson
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
Susan Sontag wrote: “Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other space”.
This work addresses aspects of that citizenship. I used my experiences as a person living with a disability and as a parent to a son with Autism to explore the dichotomy of this dual citizenship. The …