Journal of Student Research 2021

Cacophony

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Cacophony

Gabs Conway Senior, Fine Art, Studio Art; Concentration in Ceramics Faculty Mentor: Geoffrey Wheeler

Artist Statement My body of work asks questions about the disjointed relationships we have between our mentality and physical form. I explore how life is perceived through existing in a human form; to be self-aware. I no longer recognize my body as a human being. I am only an essence of human intelligence bound to a physical form. These detachments start from our subconscious; a separate entity than our outward appearance. I consider, in death, how our physicality is left behind, and it is no longer us present. This contradiction of containment and detachment has led me to consider my form to be a fleshy mound of organs. The human form has become a tube, a vessel for essence, a continuator of survival.