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My Master of Fine Art exhibit consisted of nine translucent, fiberglass body shells installed with seven graduated photographs, four sculptural briefcases, five oil on canvas paintings, and 40 home-made artifacts in plexiglass boxes. I completed this chronology of works during two years of graduate school. This exhibit addressed my desire to reclaim a landscape and reconstruct it in abstracted form. I was also determined to avoid representational landscapes, conveying instead my experiences as a geologist working within the earth. Before my return to college, I physically internalized the Great Basin (the geologic province between the Wasatch Range in Utah and the Sierra Nevada in Nevada) as a geologist. Digging old mine dumps, hammering on rocks, inhaling clouds of dust and dirt, driving heavy equipment, blasting in underground mines and prospecting in remote areas were part of my job. As an MFA student, I transformed these experiences into paint, fiberglass, and photographs. This exhibit, then, is about exhaling the earth. |
