Date of Award
Spring 6-4-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Furniture
First Advisor
Patricia Johnson
Second Advisor
Anne West
Third Advisor
Maria Camarena
Abstract
miles and miles and miles is a body of work that draws design inspiration from the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, a region unflattened by ice during the last ice age. The works are site specific extrapolations that have been abstracted in order to trigger a process of memory recollection in the viewer. Selections of atmospheric prose, furniture objects, illustrations, and imagery are presented as snapshots of a place in an attempt to memorialize and make tangible ephemeral memories collected by the maker traveling in this vast landscape. Attention is given to the distillation of form in order to contemplate its material or atmospheric essence. Carved ash and neon light intersect to call attention to the relationship between the land and the built landscape. Rather than invoke criticism, it is a celebration of the harmony and beauty that exists between nature and human-made objects, architecture, and neon signs. A design ethos reminiscent of Aldo Leopold’s ecological land ethic is established: a working ethos that deeply appreciates the subdued landscape and materiality of place.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Shannon Rose, "Miles and miles and miles" (2022). Masters Theses. 838.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/838
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Comments
View exhibition online: Shannon Rose Jones, miles and miles and miles