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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13280348062021-08-03T06:04:33Z Adipose Merriman, Shauna <p>I make new bodies in sculpture as a way to understand my own body. I wrestle with coexisting notions that while my body is excessive, shameful, suspect, and awkward, it can also be funny, sensual, luscious, and full. My work in clay is a kind of rearranging; I move around and reconfigure the forms of the sculpture as I work through my ideas about how I see the body. Working is a way of accepting the lack of control I have over the growth, yet the impulse to control and confine sets up tension in the work. Each piece is an active entity that I wrestle with. Ultimately the work grows into a complicated life form that commands its own space, sometimes winning, and at other times, seeming more defeated.</p><p>Chapter one begins with the way I learned to see my body, as a basis for the work that I have developed. In chapter two, I examine the exploration of form and content that led from pottery to vessel making to sculpture, with food as a backdrop for the work throughout. I examine the formal, technical, and conceptual properties of my abstract sculptural forms that make up the body of my thesis work in chapter four. My thesis exhibition, "Adipose", was a way to explore the possibility of creating bizarre situations and relationships between the pieces that parallel what I experience with my body. Chapter four is a description of this show installation: unashamed bodies, though sometimes objectified and freakish-like, sprawl out over furniture, open for gawking: dead, languid, comfortably sleeping, or celebratory. Chapter five concludes with the F-word: Fat and the questions about what is beautiful, seductive, erotic, distasteful, disgusting, or shameful.</p> 2003 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1328034806 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1328034806 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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