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Tending the Broken Window

Merchant, Sean Robert
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1493285369498883

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2017, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
Through the works Meeting and Salt Box House, and this subsequent thesis writing, I look at what drives my art making and draw links between those interests, my background as a glazier, my rural upbringing, and material properties tied to specific memories. Before coming to Ohio State University, I spent seven formative years at an Illinois architectural glass firm, making and restoring stained glass windows for sacred spaces. Though I developed a deep respect for the medium and the processes involved in the production, I began to question the relationships between the uses of symbolism, representation. I became aware of the liminal space between the intent of the maker or restorer, and the authorship inherent in the materials. I began to wonder about the roles that time, proximity, perspective, memory, and chance have in the interpretation and understanding of personal and collective experience.
Richard Harned (Advisor)
Dani Leventhal (Committee Member)
Sergio Soave (Committee Member)
31 p.
Fine Arts
window; sculpture; architecture; glass; architectural glass; stained glass; mirror; restoration; entropy; rural; proximity; memory; chance; illustration; representation;

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  • Merchant, S. R. (2017). Tending the Broken Window [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1493285369498883

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Merchant, Sean. Tending the Broken Window. 2017. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1493285369498883.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Merchant, Sean. "Tending the Broken Window." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1493285369498883

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© 2017, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Tending the Broken Window by Sean Robert Merchant is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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