Jones, Janet A.Chang, Shea Lynn2021-03-082021-03-082020-102021-03-08http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38164A Troubling, Soft Underfoot delves into the spatiality of complex otherness, and investigates pluralistic, non-delineated and deviant embodiments of place, race, gender, and sexuality through cross-bred processes of drawing, painting and sculpture. Through thin washes of pigment extended onto aluminum, a disquieting exchange is generated amidst thresholds in contemporary drawing, painting and sculpture; the resulting work takes shape between the spaces of control and accident, opacity and transparency, porosity and rigidity, alignment and disruption, seen and unseen. The multiple and mutable optical and physical formations in this work propose a reconsideration of the thresholds between all things, organisms, animals and humans, to uncover the invisible symbiotic entanglements in which we all exist.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Gender studiesElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2021-03-08Visual ArtMixed Media ArtPaintingDrawingSculptureContemporary SurrealismAbstractionSymbiosisLiminalGeologyEcologyMetamorphosisMutationIdentityGeopoliticsQueerFeministPhenomenologyDiasporaMigrantBiracialMixed EthnographyIntertidalOceanicMarshlands