Wood, the Process, and Me

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dc.contributor.advisorSinger, Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorBujas, Monica Marie
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-22T18:46:04Z
dc.date.available2019-11-22T18:46:04Z
dc.date.copyright2019-06
dc.date.issued2019-11-22
dc.date.updated2019-11-22T18:46:04Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides an overview of my personal relationship with trees and tree-related materials that I collect, conserve and transform. The focus of the paper, which is a support to the thesis exhibition, is on the process of making sculptures which are part of the thesis exhibition. The experience of the collected found tree forms becomes a metaphor for my chronic illness, a painful condition of the spine that results in the degeneration of the intervertebral disks. The sculptural forms I create represent the frozen moments of restriction and deformation that result in the process of making them. These sculptural forms mimic the restrictions that are the result of the disease as it spreads throughout the body. Artists Eva Hesse, Mark Dion, and Tony Cragg become significant inspirations in understanding the meaning and knowledge behind the materials in their art practices. All of us conserve, reclaim, and reconceptualize in various ways through our material use. The imaginative and physical activity of reconstructing the tree forms informs my relationship with the unseen forms of the spine within me.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/36716
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.subject.keywordsmaterials
dc.subject.keywordsconservation
dc.subject.keywordsreclamation
dc.subject.keywordsreconceptualize
dc.subject.keywordstrees
dc.subject.keywordssculptures
dc.subject.keywordsdrawings
dc.subject.keywordschronic illness
dc.subject.keywordsspine
dc.subject.keywordsdegeneration
dc.subject.keywordsrestriction
dc.subject.keywordsdeformations
dc.subject.keywordsreconstruction
dc.subject.keywordstree related material
dc.titleWood, the Process, and Me
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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