Keywords
Crochet art, craft, abuse, trauma, memory, repetition, performance art, labor, family, tradition, generations, maternal, lineage, domesticity
Abstract
Incorporating traditional craft mediums of crochet and embroidery, I use digital technology to experiment with wording to graphically represent my abuse trauma. Due to the severity of the subject matter and the work ethic I employ in my art practice, using my hands and being completely involved is a form of masochistic pleasure. My process takes on a Sisyphean approach of penance for the sins of others in my work. During my studio practice, my process reaches a meditative state where my mind is clear and free of the burden. Once I've completed a panel of trauma, the burden is transported into the art and a state of enlightenment is achieved. I began this program taking an analysis from an external perspective, gradually shifting my focus of artistic practice to my internal struggles with memory and repressed abuse trauma. Since I have selfishly focused on my personal tragedies for inspiration for the past three years, my work can now address a more universal subject matter in the future
Notes
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Graduation Date
2013
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Santana, Maria Cristina
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
Visual Arts and Design
Degree Program
Emerging Media; Studio Art and the Computer
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0004659
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0004659
Language
English
Release Date
May 2013
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Arts and Humanities -- Dissertations, Academic, Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Humanities
STARS Citation
Bush, Melissa, "Home Sweet Home: An Infinite Grid Of Memory And Repressed Abuse Trauma" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2517.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/2517