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A State in Which The Opposing Forces Are Not Equal And Don’t Cancel Out Each Other

Laskowska, Monika
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1344798482

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2012, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
In my thesis work, I analyze the effects that displacement and transitory circumstances of life have on one’s sense of home and belonging. My work grows from the tension between my preconceptions of home from my stable childhood and the transient reality of my adult life as an emigrant. The form of a vessel, synonymous with ideas of nourishment, containment, domesticity, and the body, is central to my work. I abstract memories of familiar forms from my Granny’s kitchen in Poland in clay or paper. The clay is pinched one fingertip at a time and the paper meticulously pieced together or manipulated in an intense process of remembering. The original function of the vessels is challenged and subverted by my formal decisions about scale, repetition, the use of materials and placement in space. They exist somewhere between the real and the imagined speaking of issues of fragmentation, loss of the center of gravity, re-defining, adaptation, and a simultaneous sense of strangeness and familiarity.
Steven Thurston (Committee Chair)
Suzanne Silver (Advisor)
Todd Slaughter (Advisor)
Fine Arts
ceramics; clay; porcelain; displacement; belonging; fragmentation; identity; home; domesticity

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  • Laskowska, M. (2012). A State in Which The Opposing Forces Are Not Equal And Don’t Cancel Out Each Other [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1344798482

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Laskowska, Monika. A State in Which The Opposing Forces Are Not Equal And Don’t Cancel Out Each Other. 2012. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1344798482.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Laskowska, Monika. "A State in Which The Opposing Forces Are Not Equal And Don’t Cancel Out Each Other." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1344798482

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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