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      Traces

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      Date
      2022-09-22
      Author
      Conlon, Emily Rita Rose
      ORCID
      0000-0002-7124-6361
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      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 History
      Program
      Studio Art
      Supervisor
      Graham, John
      Committee
      Norlen, Alison; Nowlin, Tim; Orosz, Carla; Birke, Lisa
      Copyright Date
      2022
      URI
      https://hdl.handle.net/10388/14208
      Subject
      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
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