Theses and Dissertations at Montana State University (MSU)
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Item Surface(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2001) Maki, SarahMy work is about revealing beauty in the hidden, subtle, and inauspicious details found around us. I want to call attention to beauty found in the quiet, temporal familiarities of the physical world where there exists a transition between material and nonexistence. The main vehicle for this disclosure is casting process in which translucent materials are used to lift impressions from surfaces such as the studio floor or sheets of plastic. This process reveals countless natural occurrences, varying form cracks and wrinkles to dirt and chipped paint. The combination of these subtle incidents is the focal point of my work My attention to surface draws the viewer into the interior of each piece, dissolving the outer membrane and revealing layers of hidden irregularities. Each work is a record of used and misuse - a temporal expression of beauty created by the collective effects of time, human treatment, and my own hand.Item 3 walls(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2002) Howe, MirandaDesigns and patterns are elemental components in my work. They are not only visual end results, but are very important aspects in my own creative process. In making thousands upon thousands of tiles, stacking, arranging, and grouping them in different stages all around me, I become immersed in the process. The repetition of doing one things over and over again until it becomes a navigational memory for the muscles, allows freedom for the mind to traverse different terrain. Like portions of frescoes crumbing, or paint peeling to reveal what is underneath, I only give fragments of information before one surface stops and another begins. Compelled to cut my tiles into smaller and smaller units, I weave together a tighter, more complex networks of layered information. Organic and invented pattern coincide. Burnt earth, quilting fabric, dried riverbeds, brick streets, ancient ruins, fissures and intrusions are all used to celebrate pattern.