Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Greene, Kimberly Ellen
Author's Email Address	kgreen1@lsu.edu
URN	etd-06072005-105003
Title	Re-Envisioning My Backyard, One Brick at a Time
Degree	Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Department	Art
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Robert Silverman Committee Chair David Baird Committee Member Kelli Scott Kelley Committee Member Michaelene Walsh Committee Member Susan Ryan Committee Member
Keywords	beauregard station art ceramic brick built environment human impact gracie acme brick meadow park birdhouse cortana mall
Date of Defense	2005-04-05
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract My work is inspired by my immediate environment. I am especially interested in places which exhibit visual evidence of history, of industrial, natural and human life and the corresponding cycles of building, abandonment, destruction and salvage. In Baton Rouge, these relationships are dramatic, the lush vegetation, birds and overwhelming presence of industry make this interplay constantly tangible. My current work began with the phenomenal concerns within the struggle of nature and industry. Newly built industry is highly ordered, the perfect symbol of not only technology, but also control. However, older industry is more chaotic, with the initial order obscured over time. Nature rusts components, plants grow wildly around the wires and repairs and odd added parts disrupt perfect patterns of the original designs. Older factories are no longer symbols of technology and control, but technology and nature and their interaction over time. My work, modular ceramic building blocks or bricks, is a response to this environment. Their design integrates many aspects of both nature and industry, geometry, repetition and fitting parts. The bricks vary reflecting the various stages of erosion or entropy. While working and investigating, I have become interested not only in natural phenomenon but also in landscape and the built environment. In these spaces, it is impossible not to think about why something was built, abandoned or destroyed. The larger social issues, including class and environmental issues, have come to the surface. With this new focus, a series of exploratory, temporary, collaborative, site projects were executed at various sites in Baton Rouge. In these projects, the work exists in the same spaces in which it was inspired.
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