Charistmatic Things
| dc.contributor.author | Langley, Erin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-28T19:46:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-28T19:46:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | 20 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | n his 1984 essay collection The Responsibility of Forms Roland Barthes refutes the notion of a blank surface writing “No surface, wherever we consider it, is a virgin surface: everything is always, already, rough, discontinuous, unequal, set in motion by some accident: there is the texture of the paper, then the stains, the hatchings, the tracery of strokes” (162). Here Barthes considers the nascent material (the substrate) of a work of art not as a neutral surface, but as a presence that is already lively and activated. The idiosyncratic precondition of material that Barthes describes is where much of my work begins: from a cast-off or remnant, severed from its value system, which forms the logic for a response. In my practice these leftover materials—removed from their original context, and laden with evidence of their past— are imbued with “thing-ness”. These residual surfaces, enlivened by their status of post-use, are re-metabolized in the studio in order to navigate within frameworks of natural and synthetic, consumption and waste, subject and object. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27475 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | MFA | en_US |
| dc.title | Charistmatic Things | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | en_US |