Date of Award
Fall 1-5-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Daniel Bozhkov
Academic Program Adviser
Carrie Moyer and Lisa Corinne Davis
Abstract
The following 12 poems were written in 2023 leading up to my MFA thesis exhibition at Hunter College. Each relate and were inspired by or inspired the visual works in the exhibition. My writing, the music I make, and the visual works I create are all intertwined and feed off of each other. The relationship between my works of art and poetry are not in the tradition of ekphrasis, but are instead extensions of each other. Each mark, material, color, or image are words, sounds, sentences, movements, and pauses. And vice versa as well. Moments on a picture plane or between materials are like words and sounds in a sentence or the sound of the sentence. I connect this to a quote by Robert Frost in which he says that “[A] sentence is a sound in itself on which other sounds called words may be strung. You may string words together without a sentence sound to string them on just as you may tie clothes together by the sleeves and stretch them without a clothesline between two trees, but—it is bad for the clothes.” (Malone) That is to say that I am attentive to the potential of different moments within a work not just as individual situations but in relation to those around them and the whole. I build up the moments.
Recommended Citation
Casas, Karewith A., "Recuerdos Efímeros" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1297
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