AbstractsBiology & Animal Science
| Institution: | York University |
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| Department: | Visual Arts |
| Degree: | MFA - Master of Fine Arts |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Keywords: | Fine arts; Metaphysics; Psychology; art, fine art, visual art, weaving, ceramics, sound, installation, sculpture, metaphysical, archaeology, psychology, mythology, emotional body, emotion, affect, intuition, sticky aura, haunting, the uncanny, undoing, ruin, traces, transformation, metamorphosis, decay, entropy, deconstruction, human condition, bodily, biomorphic, women, anthropomorphic, residue, Freud, Derrida, Sheila Hicks |
| Record ID: | 2044013 |
| Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/27694 |
Abstract
This thesis will outline my material processes, ideas and concepts during my studies at York University’s MFA in Visual Arts. I briefly discuss weaving and women in mythology and history, and connect my work to that of contemporary artists situated in the practice of weaving. I then describe my art-making process and discuss artists who also use methods based on destructive techniques and intuition. Finally, I discuss concepts that are pertinent within my art practice: archaeology, psychology, the emotional body, the uncanny, haunting and sticky auras.
