Marginalia
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu12820865672021-08-03T06:00:31Z Marginalia Macpherson, Janet Lynn Fine Arts Marginalia Fine art Ceramics slip-cast Memories of my Catholic childhood have had a significant impact on my life and work. Images and objects from my past have influenced me and drawn me to dark and unsettling imagery, imagery that shows the corruptibility of flesh, the deformity of body, the unpredictability of nature, and the inevitability of death. I make objects using plaster molds, many of which are stock characters from the Christian nativity. They reference my interest in Catholic imagery, but the content implicit in their form is not that simple. The objects I make live in a complicated space. They are emotionally loaded sculptures full of pathos and palpable intensity, but they are also tied to the world of ubiquitous collectible porcelain. At first glance they are the innocuous occupants of the shelf or the mantle, but upon closer inspection their subversive reality is exposed. There are hybrids that are made of two different animals, grotesques that combine human and animal forms, and plants that grow unexpected appendages. Heads are duplicated and pushed together, limbs are amputated or obscured, and faces are masked and perforated. All of these elements collide to create a strange world outside the boundaries of the everyday. My work investigates peculiar things that live on the edge of normal, incongruous things with a messy sacred hierarchy that exist side by side but yet not quite together, small things that make us wonder and compel us to look again. 2010-10-27 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282086567 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282086567 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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