Theses and Dissertations Collection

This body of work consists of mixed media drawings accompanied by 3D printed vessels. The “artifacts” are the materials—earth pigments, ochres and paper, as well as processes, pigment application, drawing and technical notation, pastel work and gestural mark making. The artworks are metaphors for memory, experience and emotional processing. The geometrical constructs are stand-ins for the increasing complexity of our thoughts, emotions and experiences as dealt with in a rationalistic way. The color ground as a layer begins the metaphor of our sensual, emotional selves as rooted in our natural beings, while the expressive color figures are our more complex human emotions. These layers are assembled, just as our memories are assembled; the artifacts become the drawing, they become us.