dc.contributor	Ginsberg, Tatiana
dc.contributor	Savoy, Lauret
dc.contributor.advisor	Hachiyanagi, Rie
dc.contributor.author	Meyers, Nika
dc.date.accessioned	2011-05-19T16:56:28Z
dc.date.available	2011-05-19T16:56:28Z
dc.date.gradyear	2011	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-05-19
dc.description	Images of art work available on CD ROM.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	I visually explore landscape as inspired by looking through the lens of sustainability. This exploration considers a landscape in terms of systems and substances. Through papermaking, printmaking, mixed media assemblage and collage, drawing, and burning, layered images draw on multiple places and perspectives. The pieces represent “landscape” as the spatial entity of area that integrates the environment, living systems, and the human-made. A place is not limited to a visual interpretation in terms of form, light, and relationships. I create maps, but unlike a cartographer I am free to disobey rules in order to build maps of collective knowledge that do not lead or point to a specific location. These maps become objects that challenge reality, orientation, time, and identity. Space is a web of interconnectedness; matter, energy, and patterns combine into networks of infrastructure in the form of roads, electrical currents, sewage pipes, pathways, internet, and ecosystems. Climatic changes are altering the world, and the identity of places is shifting. Artistic actions are captured through regenerative combinations, movements, lines, and planes. I carve away at surfaces, reshaping and determining form and distance. Drawn and sewn ectors articulate the way mass moves through an area, forming linear and non-linear pathways and connections. Uncertainty and unpredictability are part of my decision-making process, as I work through scenarios rather than executing a piece with a foreseen concrete outcome. Materials—such as found objects, landscaping materials, fire, and natural dyes—are challenged to play a large role in the work by becoming engaged with time, pressure, and heat. My work explores a question: How do we form a relationship to the changing landscape? Rebecca Solnit writes, “How we inhabit the landscape is determined by our metaphors for how we live on earth.” Through both indoor artwork for gallery settings and outdoor environmental pieces this question is explored. I learn by experimenting, thereby becoming part of the conversation of urban and ecological landscapes.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Art Studio	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10166/863
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.restricted	public
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subject	Art	en_US
dc.subject	Environment	en_US
dc.subject	Sustainability	en_US
dc.subject	Landscape	en_US
dc.subject	Map	en_US
dc.subject	change	en_US
dc.subject	collage	en_US
dc.title	Interconnectedness: Changing Landscapes	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
mhc.degree	Undergraduate	en_US
mhc.institution	Mount Holyoke College

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