Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorMattison, Sarah Reese
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-19T15:08:09Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T14:31:48Z
dc.date.available2014-12-19T15:08:09Z
dc.date.available2020-06-22T14:31:48Z
dc.date.issued2014-12
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/585
dc.description.abstractFrom the architectural element to Microsoft, windows are analogous to notions of the portal, the frame, and the screens of film, television, the computer and mobile phone. They represent a passage to other worlds, new ways of thinking and ideas, a frame for voyeurism, spiritual insights, as an escape from the banality of daily life, as well as a medium for inner reflection. The window’s function is paradoxical: providing a physical separation from inside and outside while still enabling cross examination, existing as both an internal and external form simultaneously. They are usually transparent but also have a reflective surface. They close out and close in. Windows frame both virtual and physical realities thus challenging notions of time and space. These dualities are at the heart of my thesis question. Through my thesis, I ask, “where does the external end and the internal begin?” Where do you end and I begin?” The entry point for my thesis project, Obscura, was an exploration of the physical and metaphorical expressions of window. Physically, I took the elements of a window and undressed them one by one: the frame, glass, coatings, screen, etc. Through this process, I was also attempting to dismantle the metaphorical concepts of beyond / outer / other / exterior / separateness by highlighting the tangled hierarchy of an absolute binary: without an inside, there is no outside, no exterior without an interior, and vice versa. The concepts exist simultaneously and are entrenched to the point where one does not exist without the other – a chicken and egg dilemma. Which comes first, inside or outside? Mother or child? Time or space? You or me? How are these signifiers nested together in an interwoven whole?en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectSculptureen_US
dc.subjectArten_US
dc.subjectInstallationen_US
dc.subjectQuantum physicsen_US
dc.subjectTangled binaryen_US
dc.subjectMirroren_US
dc.subjectPerceptionen_US
dc.subjectNew mediaen_US
dc.subjectVideoen_US
dc.subjectTransparencyen_US
dc.subjectReflectionen_US
dc.subjectPhenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectConsciousnessen_US
dc.subjectTechnologyen_US
dc.subjectMinimalismen_US
dc.subjectDualityen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Arten_US
dc.subjectSculpture Exhibitionsen_US
dc.subjectVideo art Exhibitionsen_US
dc.titleObscura: MFA Thesis - Sculptureen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
refterms.dateFOA2020-06-22T14:31:48Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY College at New Paltz
dc.accessibility.statementIf this SOAR repository item is not accessible to you (e.g. able to be used in the context of a disability), please email libraryaccessibility@newpaltz.edu


Files in this item

Thumbnail
Name:
MattisonMFA_Thesis.pdf
Size:
58.67Mb
Format:
PDF

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States