Date of Award
Spring 5-30-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Furniture
First Advisor
Patricia Johnson
Second Advisor
Ben Blanc
Third Advisor
Amy Goodwin
Abstract
I see landscape through my own eyes, hands and body, and also through the lenses of Chinese poetry, calligraphy and ink painting. These art forms are rich in metaphor. The way they imagine and depict landscape is romantic, often including observations on dual concepts as lightness and heaviness, movement and stillness, change and stability, all of which have inspired this collection of work.
These furniture pieces include benches, tables and lamps. They are abstracted landscapes, to spark imagination about natural forces and transformations, both through the process with which they’ve been made and through their final forms. I engage with concrete casting, bent lamination and stone selecting in making these pieces, which are processes that include chemical reaction, transformation and allow accidents. Their forms are abstracted from the landscape--curve, dimple and solid mass. I hope that they will bring about tactile connection with the environment through being touched and used. And most of all, they exist to help open up an empty space for senses and imagination to fill in.
Recommended Citation
Li, Xuelun, "Sky is sinking below the trees : two years of documentation and observations" (2019). Masters Theses. 398.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/398
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