Diffused Dimensions

dc.contributorGinsberg, Tatiana
dc.contributorDavis, Michael
dc.contributor.advisorHachiyanagi, Rie
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Ziwei
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-03T10:28:00Z
dc.date.available2013-07-03T10:28:00Z
dc.date.gradyear2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-07-03
dc.description.abstractMy visual work explores the unsettled quality of our surroundings as we experience and inhabit physical spaces in the everyday. The space is both the object and the context of art-making. As perceived by the individual from within, the space projects itself as a series of fragments of situatedness that can never be fully deciphered and compiled into a definite, fixed and closed entity. As one moves through the space and perceives it from various angles, multiple dimensions of space and time are diffused into each other to form the whole spatial experience. The images I create bear the traces of the struggle to identify and capture the qualities that invite one to enter and move through a space. Drawing becomes an extension of seeing and perceiving. The marks are created as the visualization of a process in which the object is dissected, simplified, complicated and consequently reinvented. The subject matter and the drawing languages constantly transform and are transformed by each other. Various languages of mark-making are infused to create a sense of space that is both familiar, enterable and yet also strange and obscured. My drawings seem like specific places, and at the same time they evoke the abstract sense of place harbored in the unconscious and in the memory. Such a sense of ambiguity is purposefully created through blurring the lines between the real and the illusionistic, between the literal marks and those of abstraction, and between the fully articulated and the empty.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipArt Studioen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/3283
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.restrictedrestricteden_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectArten_US
dc.titleDiffused Dimensionsen_US
dc.typeThesis
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke College

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