Preview
Creation Date
Winter 2017
Description
Undergraduate student. Year of graduation: 2019. Major: Printmaking. Class: Junior Print Workshop: Seminar/Critique. Faculty: Leah Wolff. Photographed by Mariah Bennett, MDes Interior Architecture, 2018.
Materials + Techniques
Bound with hand-dyed batik silk and linen. Graphite on Stonehenge natural paper.
Student Narrative
Hindu mythology presents an abundance of gods each god characterized by very specific bejeweled weaponry. In our time of unrest, where weaponry prompts only negative connotations, I attempt to reform the perspective, invoking appreciation and meditation, by creating an archive of objects half-referenced, half-made up, with round and shiny surfaces, beautiful but sharp, removed from their previous homes, distilled by removing all embellishment that strips itself of context, so as to provide as a purely visual feast.
Keywords
artists' books, Hindu mythology, aesthetics, weapons