The Poetics of Proximity

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dc.contributor.advisorArmstrong, David Scott
dc.contributor.authorRussell, James
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T15:14:35Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T15:14:35Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-04
dc.date.updated2023-08-04T15:14:35Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThe thematic analysis of my studio work since 2020 work revealed many contradictions. The Poetics of Proximity is an investigation of these contradictions, the connective energy that holds objects, people, and ideas together. My studio work explored how forms gather, interact, and coalesce into meaning, particularly within a grid format. New energetic forms emerged where connections multiply, and where elemental units coalesce. In the mysterious gatherings and connections between individual elements I found emerging patterns, the scaffolding of meaning and belief. My thematic analysis revealed an impulse to organize, connect, construct and repair, to recognize the need for human spirituality as a condition for a better future, an attempt to compensate for my complicity in modern capitalism. My final series, Men in Cities represents bodies in a state of ecstatic exorcism, holding contradiction, deeply engaged in the material transition of the body and mind, energetically vibrating with faith, with new forms always taking shape.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41351
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectArt education
dc.subjectArt criticism
dc.subjectArt history
dc.subject.keywordsArt
dc.subject.keywordsFine art
dc.subject.keywordsPoetics
dc.subject.keywordsProximity
dc.subject.keywordsPrint
dc.subject.keywordsCritique
dc.subject.keywordsModernism
dc.subject.keywordsModernity
dc.subject.keywordsMen
dc.subject.keywordsCity
dc.subject.keywordsCities
dc.subject.keywordsContemporary
dc.subject.keywordsContemporary art
dc.subject.keywordsCapitalism
dc.subject.keywordsBusiness
dc.subject.keywordsCorporate
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity
dc.subject.keywordsCoalescence
dc.subject.keywordsConnection
dc.subject.keywords1960s
dc.subject.keywordsMid century
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsEXPO67
dc.titleThe Poetics of Proximity
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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