Date of Award
Spring 6-2-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Textiles
First Advisor
Elizabeth Scull
Second Advisor
Ursula Wagner
Third Advisor
Hannah Carlson
Abstract
The pieces that I create are monuments of the mundane; they are both garments and--through their installation--a place as well. They are portraits of loved people, embodied through hand labor and industrial processes. In this project I destabilize the idea of a memory palace--an imagined rational space which holds memory--and replace it with an ever-expanding memory atmosphere. From a palace of marble and bronze to a fog of salt tinged color, a sky turning, like a cut plum, from orange to purple, music carried on the breeze.
I map individuals, qualities of light, flashes of color and material. Specific moments and the faintest recollections alike are used to discover the physical counterpoints to my memories. I wrestle with the solidity and haziness of the past and the physical vessel that must hold these two qualities. The textile resides in a continuum between raw material and finished object. The garments, as manifestation of labor and personal history, are indexes of place. They are portraits and monuments to people I love.
Recommended Citation
Jiménez, Carolina, "Summer peaches and salt-tinged fog" (2018). Masters Theses. 254.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/254
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