Mystical Visions
Open AccessAbstract of ThesisMystical VisionsWavy landscapes, abstract depictions of imagined space, and reconfigured materials flow throughout Mystical Visions. They lie in a place that feels liminal, flickering between a subconscious, amorphous arena and the familiar scaffolding of our environment. To me, the subconscious feels like a reservoir for our emotions, psychological temperament, and spiritual selves.My tendency towards creating scenes through mark-making and taking objects apart for installations is highlighted with the work in Mystical Visions. It offers me a meditative, tactile experience while allowing me to imagine possibilities for uninhibited space, nurturing, and personal agency. Creating images with Visionary Art motifs, environmental features, and biographical iconography in a two-dimensional space veers these images into a metaphysical realm, and therefor present a false objectivity. Disassembling and reorienting the objects in the installation work, as well as mixing preowned and industrial materials, allows me to reexamine my relationship to these objects and their inherent power. The objects serve as bits and pieces of material evidence for the systems and societal narratives they support. Creating my own symbology through these modes of working is an outlet for me to world-build while remaining vigilant of which motifs and larger structures feel at odds with a black, queer existence.
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