Journal of Student Research 2018

Forgetting the Lines

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Forgetting the Lines

Claire Kayser Senior, BFA in Studio Art: Concentrations in Contemporary Sculptural Practices and Metals and Contemporary Art Jewelry Forgetting the Lines exposes the relationships formed between expectation and the objects associated with routine. I investigate the role that emotional attachment plays in our daily interactions with objects and their assigned conventions. Routine in this context applies to human behavior—specifically the personal rituals we perform in order to feel socially comfortable. By drawing attention to current obsession, I acknowledge my own compulsions and affairs within object and ritual. I explore familiar forms and their functionalities in order to maintain specific context, while introducing newly created forms and meaning. Through the addition of fabric, this synthetic material comments on the treatment applied to self, acting as a covering to hide the surface beneath, much like a skin or shell. My process of making through repetition, manipulation, and covering directly relates to the compulsive ritualistic up keep I attribute to my forms. Viewers are invited to explore the space where my installations and forms are living and conscious while revealing personal obsessions and insecurities.