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Desire Lines: Chasing the Horizon
Author Info
Hendricks, Breana
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu174493817365273
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2025, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
Abstract
My ceramics practice collects and abstracts shared ancestral experiences in the Caribbean and observations of exoticism and abundance in pre-colonial Jamaica, informing an understanding of manufactured leisure on island vacations. The work presented for my thesis exhibition maps how transformative relationships in the material histories of sugar gratifies our fundamental desire for sweetness. Assembled vignettes of ceramic sculptures, slip-casted sugar derived produce found in the Caribbean and the United States accompany various hand-built figural forms. I incorporate sourced crops found in Caribbean climates: coconuts, sugarcane, and a banana casted from imported shipments to the United States. This document explores possibilities in reidentifying these agricultural products, relying on the black body as a site for geographical experimentation.
Committee
Steven Thurston (Advisor)
Laura Lisbon (Committee Member)
Maurice Stevens (Committee Member)
Pages
30 p.
Subject Headings
Fine Arts
Keywords
Ceramics
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Art
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Middle Passage
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The Black Atlantic
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Migration
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Afrotropes
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Sugar
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Bananas
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Coconuts
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Jamaica
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Colonialism
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Desire
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Displacement
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Plantation
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Landscape
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Modernity
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Black Culture
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Hendricks, B. (2025).
Desire Lines: Chasing the Horizon
[Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu174493817365273
APA Style (7th edition)
Hendricks, Breana.
Desire Lines: Chasing the Horizon.
2025. Ohio State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu174493817365273.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Hendricks, Breana. "Desire Lines: Chasing the Horizon." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2025. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu174493817365273
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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