Date of Award
Spring 6-3-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Pouya Ahmadi
Second Advisor
Ryan Waller
Third Advisor
Brian Johnson, James Goggin
Abstract
OtherWorldly Gestures seeks to give form to the intangible. I work primarily with light as material substance to shape a speculative emotive space in which I make metaphysical phenomena experiential. I collaborate with ecological and technological elements to express a spiritual understanding of Self and World. Most recently, the work translates material objects and architectural elements from my cultural heritage, and gives visual and haptic form to the sacred relationship between body, soul, and natural world.
Through these explorations, I begin to propose a speculative OtherWorld. I delve into the precolonial, ancestral teachings of a mystical spiritual path, referencing Sufi teachings, Islamic perspectives, diasporic Bengali heritage, and Texas landscapes as source material from which to weave a new set of future mythologies through physical and digital mediation.
Recommended Citation
Quddus, Sadia, "OtherWorldly Gestures" (2023). Masters Theses. 1088.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1088
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Comments
View exhibition online: Sadia Quddus, OtherWorldly Gestures