Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Cook, Emily Jane
Author's Email Address	emilyjanecook@gmail.com
URN	etd-06062008-162427
Title	Drift
Degree	Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Department	Art
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Leslie Koptcho Committee Chair Darius Spieth Committee Member Kelli Scott Kelley Committee Member Loren Schwerd Committee Member Michael Crespo Committee Member
Keywords	river water forest liminal drift tranistion papermaking boats handmade paper installation
Date of Defense	2008-05-02
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Drift is a movement by, or as if by, a current of air or water . It can mean the depositing of debris by such a current. It can also connote a veering off from a projected path. What interests me about the word is that it suggests a slight loss of control, but not a devastating one. Most importantly, for this body of work, it implies a passive movement, a transition in which one is not able to control every part. We can perhaps choose the river we get into but not the direction of its flow. Using properties of handmade paper as an intrinsic part of the work, I have explored ideas of transition in a number of ways. First, material„othe process of changing things from solid to liquid to solid again in papermaking by combining and removing water; second, by suggesting the blurred shift from land to water in swamplands; third, through the idea of journey, which is suggested by the imagery of the boats; and, finally, through use of imagery that lies between abstraction and representation. By walking that particular visual line the work creates poetic imagery, a visual reverie or daydream. It seeks to walk a line between conscious and unconscious thought allowing for the work to be open-ended and suggestive.
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