Sapping, smudging, staining: a feminized body

Author

Breslin Shea Bell, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Date of Award

Spring 6-6-2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

Printmaking

First Advisor

Andrew Raftery

Second Advisor

Leora Maltz-Leca

Third Advisor

Majida Kargbo

Abstract

This book—of poetry, prose, and lists—muses on the effects of liquidity and leakiness of a feminized body. By bringing echo narrative, illegibility, de-telling, and that which is continuously wet to the viewer’s body and space, this book and accompanying multimedia installation provides a lens to consider reproductive rights, body autonomy, and gender-based aggression and violence. Work of matter and color investigates interiority, both bodily and spatial, as it relates to surface, access, and space-making.

Comments

View exhibition online: Breslin Bell, Sapping, Smudging, Staining: A Feminized Body

Recommended Citation

Bell, Breslin Shea, "Sapping, smudging, staining: a feminized body" (2021). Masters Theses. 612.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/612

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