Cake Or Death – That’s an Easy Question
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu12538911742021-08-03T05:57:21Z Cake Or Death – That’s an Easy Question Haeseler, Bethany Fine Arts eating disorders glass hard candy anorexia bulimia My work explores body adornment, consumable artwork, and desire. Narrative stories influence the works, recreating aspects of past personal experience as a woman affected battles with Anorexia and Bulimia. In this thesis work, I utilized techniques that I practice in creating kiln formed glass to make works with materials that mimic it: hard candy and sugar. At first glance, it is hard to recognize what some sculptural components are actually made of. Is this beautiful glass? It certainly looks like it, and it’s in a gallery, but if the audience touches it, the stickiness exposes it’s true nature. Like glass, the hard candy is fragile, but instead of being a vessel or being a piece of jewelry, it’s intended to provide an option to be consumed. To a corset made of hard candy, I add Syrup of Ipecac to the formula, in order to induce vomiting as a way to temper the consumption of the sweets that might otherwise adorn the body as fat. Through video, attendant to the candy piece, I present an image the experience of consuming beyond the point of satisfaction, in order to satisfy others. I also offered (safe) sweets as gifts to the audience in a performance work, the cravings of the audience are satisfied, while the artist is denied these very pleasures. Since this all comes down to memory, the process and even motion of making the works is as significant as the final product. 2009 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253891174 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253891174 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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