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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7097-3316
Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2022
Month Degree Awarded
May
Abstract
Half in Dream: The Tangle in the Grid discusses the form and content of a physical art installation by the same name. The site-specific installation is a large three-dimensional collage of natural ephemera collected from the area around Amherst, Massachusetts, which interacts with natural lighting conditions to illuminate a gallery-facing image of ever-moving light and shadow. The written work elaborates some of the many details within the structure of the artwork, and reveals the philosophies, embodied practices, and methodologies that informed the visual work's creation. Woven throughout are reflections on phenomenology, walking practice, General Systems Theory, collective making, narrative arts, Zen Buddhist practice, indigenous perspectives, and ecological theory.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/29360527
First Advisor
Alexis Kuhr
Second Advisor
Susan Jahoda
Third Advisor
Shona Macdonald
Fourth Advisor
Adam R. Levine
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Paccia, Abbey L., "Half in Dream: The Tangle in the Grid" (2022). Masters Theses. 1211.
https://doi.org/10.7275/29360527
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1211
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