DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/JCDF-0Y15
Defense Date
2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Crafts
First Advisor
Sonya Y.S. Clark
Second Advisor
Deborah Quick
Third Advisor
Shay M. Church
Abstract
“The body can write on the skin from the inside—the soul, the mind, and the passions rise to the surface in boils, blushes, and rashes, and the invisible inside speaks by writing from the other side of the page”. -James Elkins Skin not only covers but reveals what is behind it. I utilize its language as indicator of flaws and pathologies. I depict and manipulate this, not just as it already exists with the human body, but as projections of my psychological states onto inanimate objects. Proposing that sight is a kind of touch, we touch with our minds, through memory, experience, and emotions. Empathetic looking involves projecting ourselves onto the objects as each simultaneously projects itself onto us.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
May 2010