Abstract

I am interested in how things are formed or made both by natural events and by man. The history and story of the environment we inhabit greatly influences my work. I reorganize materials in ways that twist how they may actually develop left to nature. Nature does some very strange and difficult to explain things and I am looking to make the viewer question the boundaries between nature and manmade. My jewelry is similar to a collected specimen, seemingly distant from where it originated but still bearing the evidence of its origin. In this body of work I hope to express my desire to understand the history of the materials that make up my work. When I say the history, it is not the factual origin or processes used to obtain these materials but the fictitious story that I have told to myself. Also, in parallel, I want to explore and try to understand my personal intuition and the need to shape these materials.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Art metal-work--Themes, motives; Art metal-work--Technique; Jewelry--Themes, motives; Jewelry--Technique; Nature in art

Publication Date

3-19-2013

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

School for American Crafts (CIAS)

Advisor

Caballero-Perez, Juan

Advisor/Committee Member

Urso, Leonard

Advisor/Committee Member

Davis, Tracy

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: NK6404 .S74 2013

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

METAL-MFA

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