DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/N3K8-5K42
Defense Date
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Nicole Killian
Second Advisor
Emily Sara
Third Advisor
Courtnie N. Wolfgang
Abstract
Contending with the loss of a parent to a mass shooting in their workplace, a newsroom, I find myself suspended in time, in an office. Post-its, fans, button-ups, snow globes, clipboards, reporters notebooks, scrap paper, jot downs, keyboards hold me up. I crave the comfort of repetitive cumulative hand work. Quilting, weaving, and cutting away help me breathe, haptically process and memorialize these grieving objects, this grieving person. Weed-wacking towards intimacy, my work employs a range of materials to mourn the mundanity of a workday, fantasize transformative justice, and steward embodied grief to the surface. My only speed is slow-- the speed of textiles, the speed of my queer body.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-9-2022
Included in
Art Practice Commons, Book and Paper Commons, Contemporary Art Commons, Criminal Law Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons, Fine Arts Commons, First Amendment Commons, Graphic Design Commons, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, Performance Studies Commons, Poetry Commons, Reading and Language Commons, Sculpture Commons