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Issue Date
2008-04-29Author
Park, Bryan Christopher
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
50 pages
Type
Thesis
Degree Level
M.F.A.
Discipline
Design
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The meaning of place to me is one of collection and projection. I endeavor to create works that serve as centers of meaning based on personal experience of a vast network of connections. This thesis body of work draws on senses of place informed through study of geography, philosophy, and art. I use the concept of place as a starting point to engage in discussion of memory, time, travel, connection, and identity. Places provide seemingly concrete settings for my memories and my desires, analogous to my unforgotten past and unlived future. As a maker, I take these place-feelings and form into objects that attach me to that place, memory, and idea. As a metalsmith, making enfolds me within a tradition of thoughtful objects. Each sculpture embodies a link between me and something beyond, something other. The exhibition acts as a map of my identity and my connections with the universe.
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