DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/E0XC-BA76
Defense Date
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Sculpture + Extended Media
First Advisor
Kendall Buster
Second Advisor
Lily Cox-Richard
Third Advisor
Massa Lemu
Abstract
IT TAKES A MUSCLE1
In the BELLY of the BEAST, the HUMAN
in the deep end of a SWIMMING POOL
in a GRAVE, looking up/out from within
at the base of a CRATER, ABYSS, PIT
the room as a CRADLE, INCUBATOR
architecture as MOTHER MOULD.2
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1 Title is borrowed and abbreviated: Spectral Display, “It Takes A Muscle To Fall In Love,” 1982.
2 For what American-English delineates as ‘mold,’ British-English uses ‘mould’ and is more specific in its technicality. The former doesn’t distinguish in spelling between mold (fungus) and mold (mould). I’m not particularly a fan of the colonizer’s nor the colonizer’s colonizer language forms because the more I learn about languages the more I see their inadequacies, but English being one of my mother-tongues, it feels important to semantically dissect the differences between them and err on the side of technicality. Consistently, I am fascinated by the ways that the language we ascribe to subjects, objects, and phenomena barely contains whom or what it is we are trying to describe. The delightful futility of naming anything anything at all…
Rights
© Saar Shemesh
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-13-2022
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