The Aesthetics of Forgetting

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dc.contributor.authorTorrence, Virginia Rose
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-15T17:35:18Z
dc.date.available2016-07-15T17:35:18Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThesis 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.en_US
dc.description.abstractThere are certain symbols, types of touch, and a personal aesthetic that emerge from this process of searching. Some reoccurring symbols within my work are hair, fabric, holes, eyes, impressions, fruit, jewelry, and flesh. All of these objects reference the body, but they are devoid of the presence which once employed them, so now point to an absence. I portray the presence of absence. The objects I use act as a metaphor for an intense desire for something lost. The way in which the imagery is rendered, from intangible abstraction, to carefully sculpted elements, to a piece that is a cast of an object itself, mirrors the way in which a memory recedes into darkness and ambiguity or how it may come into a tight and stunning focus. The process of remembering and forgetting is always in flux. Even when a presence does come close, it will skirt around the perimeter of clarity within the mind’s eye. I objectify the obscurity of fleeting memory images, creating a monument to unattainable desire for the past.en_US
dc.format.extent26 pagesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10829/7264
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofScholes Libraryen_US
dc.rightsThe author has granted Alfred University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other rights.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://libraries.alfred.edu/AURA/termsofuseen_US
dc.subjectMFA thesisen_US
dc.subjectSculptureen_US
dc.subjectCastsen_US
dc.subjectBody in arten_US
dc.subjectNegative spaceen_US
dc.subjectCeramic Arten_US
dc.titleThe Aesthetics of Forgettingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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