Date of Award
Spring 5-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
A.K. Burns
Academic Program Adviser
A.K. Burns
Abstract
My objects are meditations on intertwining themes of labor, rest, and interiority and their shadow sides—power, subjugation and the gaze. I couple materials that have millenia-long histories such as metals, glass, paper and clay with found objects and plat materials to illustrate narratives and exhume memories. Drawn from nature and technologies of land, plant stewardship and the domestic realm, I imagine my sculptures as life supporting vessels or magical enclosures.
Through sculpture, photography and printmaking, I build structures that are space of quiet to be filled with thought, healing and development. Like incubators and seed pods, my work is protective and preservative. They protect a sense of quiet while shielding its interior from the gaze. My images are a form of record keeping and note taking. I engage with ecological sciences, social science, literature and journalism as these disciplines bolster my conceptual base. Archaeology and cognitive science greatly inform the material and conceptual outcomes of my work.
Recommended Citation
Eddings, Natalie Rose, "Fugitive Colors" (2025). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1351
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