Spectra on the edge of embodiment : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

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dc.contributor.authorGriffin-Wilson, Isla
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-07T23:51:34Z
dc.date.available2018-05-07T23:51:34Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis creative-practice research references a body undergoing transformation in the search of the essence of self based on perceptions of a skin rendered permeable by years of my own emersion in eastern esoteric practices. In this exegesis, I allude to a transformative process that shifted my art practice from figurative clay sculpture and painting to the projection of digital light forms. The projections belie an interface of the flesh body encased in the skin and everything else that is considered as ‘outside’. At this interface is an ontological model of self that has a subjective malleability, one that blends with the external world of visible objects and invisible forces, felt but not seen. Composed of photographs of surfaces I have encountered, the projections transcend the world of material edges and boundaries into a borderspace where the “active power of things” alluded to by political and ecological theorist, Jane Bennett in her work Vibrant Matter holds sway (Bennett, 2010). The phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty’s notions of the borderless self centred in his description of “flesh ontology” offers a framework within which I engage an audience in propagating their connections to personal corporality and surrounding spaces (Merleau- Ponty, 2004). This artwork makes visible how the world touches us and we touch the world, igniting the haptic experience of perceiving life as one single continuous existential experience.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/13329
dc.identifier.wikidataQ112933845
dc.identifier.wikidata-urihttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112933845
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectIsla Griffin-Wilsonen_US
dc.subjectSkin in arten_US
dc.subjectHuman figure in arten_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Arten_US
dc.titleSpectra on the edge of embodiment : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorGriffin-Wilson, Isla
thesis.degree.disciplineFine Artsen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Arts (MFA)en_US
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