Traces

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Date
2022-09-22Author
Conlon, Emily Rita Rose
ORCID
0000-0002-7124-6361Type
ThesisDegree Level
MastersMetadata
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Traces is motivated by visceral awareness within natural spaces and an impulse to document experiences within these spaces to serve as a form of remembrance and preservation. Exploring how memory can distort, change, or become distant, Traces touches on themes of presence and absence. The fluctuations of clarity and ambiguity pulse throughout the gallery space like the pace of a walk, a heart beat, or a breath. Through these encounters and in investigating how recollection can be tied to collected materials and visual associations, I seek to explore how these moments can resonate more deeply and serve to fuel a journey of the imagination. By honing in on overlooked aspects of natural spaces, objects, and nuanced intangible moments, and viewing them through the lens of memory, I aim to garner closer relationships between the viewer and their surroundings and create a visual language that has the capacity to generate new narratives beyond these initial encounters.
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)Department
Art and Art HistoryProgram
Studio ArtSupervisor
Graham, JohnCommittee
Norlen, Alison; Nowlin, Tim; Orosz, Carla; Birke, LisaCopyright Date
2022Subject
printmaking
drawing
visual art
mapping
memory
traces
collecting
ephemera
nest
nature
natural environment
walking
contemporary art
installation
stitching
embroidery
thread
vestiges
recollection
imagination
narrative
memory palace
abstract expressionism
cy twombly
julie mehretu