Here Beyond Sitting with Marta and Flight of Spirits
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2019-05
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My thesis is comprised of two series of ceramic objects that deal with the construction of identity through the process of remembering, which inherently involves forgetting. The etymology of Oblivion, from the Latin word ‘oblivisci’ means to “take away” and implies an active rather than a passive loss of memory (Plate, 2015). Focusing on memory and oblivion as active societal tools, rather than passive or involuntary experience, my thesis has focused on simultaneously reproducing and obscuring images from the past to reflect the contemporary condition of the Americas. To that end, one series, Flight of Spirits is based on reproducing pre-Incan objects from the Northern Andes, and the other Sitting with Marta is a group of narrative and figurative works that have sprouted out of stream of consciousness exercises intrinsically related to my lived experience.
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Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
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MFA thesis, Crystalline Glaze, figurative, Pre-Columbian, wedding, Colombia, Ecuador, Ceramic Art