Yes, Probably

• Main Author: Richards, Hannah E B
• Format: Others
• Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2011
• Subjects: drawing; accumulation; contingency; relationships; pencil; paper; Art Practice
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/638; https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1727&context=theses

This M.F.A. thesis paper and drawing installation deal with the physical relationship of the body to itself, and with the neurological wiring connecting the parts to each other and to the whole. In my drawing 10 Months/ 9 x 20 Feet, I work on a scale several times that of my own body. Issues explored include contingency, relationships, accumulation, parameters, play, record, time, duration, proprioception, metonymy, fragmentation, space, scale, sight, process, and drawing. Over ten months, I produced a single drawing measuring twenty feet across and nine feet tall. My body’s repetitive contorting in order to trace itself, in order to literally circumnavigate a moving form, can be seen as a means of familiarizing myself in a tactile sense with the physical relationship of myself to myself.