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Intramural: Within Four Walls

Taylor, Luca F
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1557366339698542

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2019, MFA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Art.
Women’s hands till the earth, sow the seed, tend the garden, and produce the yield of the home. But theirs are not the mouths that consume, the lives that prosper, or the selves for whom they provide care. In Intramural: Within Four Walls I frame the garden as a mental-emotional sanctuary and as a metaphor for the labor that drives my own efforts of self-preservation. The space is shaped by the very expectations of womanhood with which I am contending. The ironing board is an icon representing the women whose extensive oppression through marriage, housekeeping, and motherhood resulted in my experience. Therefore, if my external self is the result of multiple generations of women’s oppression, my internal self is inescapably connected. Repurposing and transformation are the heart of women’s work. Intramural uses the selective collection of several mid-century objects as well as grown grass, special substrate, and recycled textile material. With these I repurpose and transform objects into small environments through which new experiences of empathy can be discovered. Esoteric narrative drives the conceptual design of the work, with feminism informing the greater context and being integral to the relational aestheticism employed. A gardening narrative parallels that of women’s work and intersects with feminist overtones as a vehicle for discussing nurturance, care, growth, maintenance, and domestic labor.
Arron Foster, M.F.A. (Advisor)
John-Michael Warner, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Andrew Kuebeck, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
Isabel Farnsworth, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
43 p.
Fine Arts
gardening; feminism; fine art; found object scultpure; substrate; papermaking; printmaking; domestic; feminist;

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  • Taylor, L. F. (2019). Intramural: Within Four Walls [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1557366339698542

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Taylor, Luca. Intramural: Within Four Walls. 2019. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1557366339698542.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Taylor, Luca. "Intramural: Within Four Walls." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1557366339698542

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2019, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Intramural: Within Four Walls by Luca F Taylor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Kent State University and OhioLINK.