Is that a Promise or a Threat?

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dc.contributor.advisorBalfour, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorSosnowski, Kasia Anne
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T15:08:47Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T15:08:47Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-04
dc.date.updated2023-08-04T15:08:46Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThe art I produced during my MFA is informed by my personal experiences with trauma, grief, gaslighting, and the subsequent inability to interpret my resonant feelings. The title of my thesis exhibition and accompanying support paper – is that a promise or a threat? – is the foundational question and entryway into deciphering the intense, overwhelming, and contradictory states of affect that I was and, to a lesser degree, still am experiencing. In response to these circumstances, my research focuses on ideas of care, fragility, transformation, dis- and re-orientation, and how clay, as a material, is a catalyst and grounding agent for embodied understanding. The content I explore is mirrored in the precarity and material flux of ceramic sculpture, fragile and vulnerable, yet crystalline. The ceramic sculptures and drawings installed in the gallery space are meant to emulate a perpetual oscillation between risk and safety, threat and promise, anxiety and satisfaction – thus mirroring the constant negotiation and exploration of my own affective experience.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41316
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.subjectWomen's studies
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subject.keywordsAffect theory
dc.subject.keywordsGender studies
dc.subject.keywordsQueer theory
dc.subject.keywordsQueer
dc.subject.keywordsSnail time
dc.subject.keywordsSlow time
dc.subject.keywordsCrip time
dc.subject.keywordsArt
dc.subject.keywordsFine art
dc.subject.keywordsCeramic
dc.subject.keywordsCeramics
dc.subject.keywordsCeramic sculpture
dc.subject.keywordsis that a promise or a threat
dc.subject.keywordsHumour
dc.subject.keywordsSlapstick
dc.subject.keywordsComedy
dc.subject.keywordsAffect
dc.subject.keywordsSculpture
dc.subject.keywordsClay
dc.subject.keywordsPromise
dc.subject.keywordsThreat
dc.titleIs that a Promise or a Threat?
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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