Date of Award
Fall 12-15-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Nari Ward
Second Advisor
Carrie Moyer
Academic Program Adviser
Carrie Moyer
Abstract
My work engages with the idea of queer time and place. The waterfront, especially that in New York City is a space where these ideas have felt most potent. I utilize photography, particularly various methods of collage that combine images made from a sixty year range engaging with the queer waterfront. This work visualizes the waterfront as a space in which time exists beyond a static linear understanding of it. I look back in order to look forward, forward in order to look back. Or am I looking both ways at once?
Recommended Citation
Berntsen, Christopher W., "History is the Devil's Doing" (2021). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/797