Date of Award
Spring 5-7-2021
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art and Design
First Advisor
Christina A. West
Second Advisor
Jill Frank
Third Advisor
Darien Arikoski-Johnson
Abstract
Memory is powerful, yet paradoxical. Fragmented and mutable, its pliability causes us to question the truthfulness of personal narratives and family mythologies. The assemblage sculptures in So It Seems are meditations on the nature of memory and how we construct stories about our lived experiences. By intertwining found and sculpted objects, I invite viewers to indulge in the human tendency to seek relationships between disparate elements. Each work includes figurative sculpture, employed for its historical function in constructing social narratives, as well as pre-made items that operate indexically and nostalgically, invoking time periods in twentieth and twenty-first century America. Relationships among the objects are idiosyncratically built in each viewer’s mind. These individualized constructions mirror the plurality of truths embedded within a single memory.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/22626920
Recommended Citation
Stone, Kourtney, "So It Seems." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2021.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/22626920
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