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dc.contributor Gill, John
dc.contributor Green, Jason
dc.contributor Hopp, Johnathan
dc.contributor Kelleher, Matt
dc.contributor Sikora, Linda
dc.contributor Sormin, Linda
dc.creator Alexander, Marissa
dc.date 2019-10-25T15:31:02Z
dc.date 2019-10-25T15:31:02Z
dc.date 2019-05
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-17T07:18:59Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-17T07:18:59Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10829/23453
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/23587
dc.description Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
dc.description My relationship to the pot is fundamental to how I identify as an artist and how I inhabit forms. Objects begin as vessels with the potential to become abstracted representations of the human (female) figure, flowers, fruit or other elements of the natural world. As I build, the size of the object grows and becomes similar in scale to that of a torso. This similarity emphasizes the relationship between the object and the human body. If looking down from above, the mouth of the vessel is open and wide, and the interior of the volume is generous. Building vessels is an ode to my first personal encounter with ceramics, the material and to the historical traditions it carries, using the surface of pots to create pattern and narrative that visually describes my vision - vision as something of great beauty - vision as envisioning contemporary life.
dc.format 11 pages
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.relation Scholes Library
dc.rights The author has granted Alfred University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other rights.
dc.rights http://libguides.alfred.edu/termsofuse
dc.subject MFA thesis
dc.subject figurative
dc.subject ceramic sculpture
dc.subject vessel
dc.subject garden
dc.subject floral
dc.subject feminist
dc.subject Ceramic Art
dc.title looking in dimmed light
dc.type Thesis


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