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Post-Industrial Wilderness: The Quarry is an Oasis

Downs, Kyle Aaron

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2016, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
After Moving Stone, the sole work of my MFA thesis exhibition, is a composed fiction in the form of a three channel silent video installation that documents my inquiry and interventions within the manmade wilderness of quarry spaces. Armed with a cell phone camera, I manipulated nature, immersed my body in the landscape and framed each quarries’ perennial characteristics in response to visual and perceptual particularities of a given site. Through direct contact and repeated visits to these places, marked by slowness, this document narrates my immediate interface with isolation, sound, light and the many signs of life observed in these wild-like, post industrial landscapes and ultimately, how I reframed these experiences within the space of the moving image. This work acknowledges the critical ecological impact of the mining industry and proposes that it is a magical kingdom that should be overtaken by the slow natural state of abandonment, which allows injured ecosystems to recover on their own.
Alison Crocetta (Advisor)
George Rush (Committee Member)
Dani Leventhal (Committee Member)
36 p.

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  • Downs, K. A. (2016). Post-Industrial Wilderness: The Quarry is an Oasis [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460748956

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Downs, Kyle. Post-Industrial Wilderness: The Quarry is an Oasis . 2016. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460748956.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Downs, Kyle. "Post-Industrial Wilderness: The Quarry is an Oasis ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460748956

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)