Abstract
My final thesis exhibition, Effluvia and Aporia, explores impermanence, loss and uncertainty. I use materials and images in a poetic way, where there is a link between what the work is and what it means. I use looped videos with images of water, light, and dissolving clay to invite a meditative state. I also use materials like tissue paper, paper-mache, and paper thin porcelain tiles to invite fragility and complexity into the viewer's experience. I am concerned with creating an interactive environment that allows for a multiplicity of responses and interpretations from each viewer depending on their unique perceptions. I am interested in impermanence, loss and uncertainty as themes because I find that they are ever present in life. My intention is to explore these ideas and create an experience that allows for the viewer to reflect on them as well.
Degree
MFA
College and Department
Fine Arts and Communications; Visual Arts
Rights
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Melander, Emily Ann, "Effluvia and Aporia" (2012). Theses and Dissertations. 3256.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3256
Date Submitted
2012-06-13
Document Type
Selected Project
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd5340
Keywords
installation, poetic, impermanence, loss, uncertainty
Language
English