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Goose Butt, Grandma Glasses, And Other Ordinary Things

Naples, Jessica R
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405594537

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2014, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
We are afraid to forget and to be forgotten: we collect, catalog and archive so that we may know what came before and that we might be remembered. Our lives are built on this premise; whether for show or for sentiment, much can be said about the things we keep. We don't save unwanted things. We rid our homes of the old, the used, the unnecessary. We bury our embarrassments. Memory is slippery, unstable and fragile, while these objects of our disregard are concrete presences. My work invests attention in life's cast-offs. I am interested in the relation between these physical things, the social and personal memories they contain, the words we use to name them and the snapshots that serve as their record. My material is found in these images, descriptions, and display. And in them is the recall of our lives.
Aspen Mays (Advisor)
Jessica Mallios (Committee Member)
Rebecca Harvey (Committee Member)
56 p.
Fine Arts
Archive; Image; Language; Object; Photography; Poetry; Memory; Mapping; Materiality; Recall; Stand-in

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  • Naples, J. R. (2014). Goose Butt, Grandma Glasses, And Other Ordinary Things [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405594537

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Naples, Jessica. Goose Butt, Grandma Glasses, And Other Ordinary Things. 2014. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405594537.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Naples, Jessica. "Goose Butt, Grandma Glasses, And Other Ordinary Things." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405594537

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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