DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/Z0RP-AR88
Defense Date
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Interior Design
First Advisor
Christiana Lafazani
Second Advisor
Sara Reed
Third Advisor
Roberto Ventura
Fourth Advisor
W.C. Whitehead
Fifth Advisor
Emily Smith
Sixth Advisor
Jennifer Fell
Abstract
Scansion is the act of discerning a poem’s meter and measure to discover its overall meaning. To achieve beauty in poetry, just as in interior design, content must continually be in conversation with form. And, just as a building must be scaled against the human figure to determine its final shape, a poem is scaled against human breath, the breadth of our sounds.
Scan & Scansion is a Richmond-based residency with a six-month term providing a work, living and exhibition space to poets and artists who wish to work collaboratively across disciplines. As the program is essentially about applied poetics and process, it presents the perfect moment to place these two modes of measurement alongside one another, exploring how poetics may be used as a design driver--how a space might be both architectural and lyrical, and, ultimately, how poetry and the arts, or the sound and the image, may enrich each other.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-2-2018