Healing & Reassembling

Healing & Reassembling

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Description

Working to unravel my sense of the world and challenge the narratives and beliefs I hold as truths; I have created a reimagined and surreal bathroom that offers a private and vulnerable space filled with hidden horrors. The animated, imperfect, decayed, and cracked bathroom forms bridge the gap between the impermanent fragility of memory and the ongoing beliefs of a personal narrative. I worked to overcome the assumption that, to heal, something must be completely resolved within itself. Instead, I offer that healing is an undescribed area, that is unmeasurable, and it is forever evolving and never finished.

Creation Information

Potts, Emily May 2022.

Context

This text is part of the collection entitled: UNT Graduate Student Works and was provided by the UNT College of Visual Arts + Design to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 14 times. More information about this text can be viewed below.

Artist

Potts, Emily

Chair

Eggert, Alicia

Committee Members

Publisher

University of North Texas
Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

Rights Holder

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Potts, Emily

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UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

The UNT College of Visual Arts and Design fosters creative futures for its diverse student population and the region through rigorous arts-based education, arts- and client-based studio practice, scholarship, and research. One of the most comprehensive visual arts schools in the nation, the college includes many nationally and regionally ranked programs.

Titles

Main Title: Healing & Reassembling
Added Title: Healing and Reassembling

Degree Information

Department: Studio Art
Discipline: Sculpture
Level: Master's
Name: Master of Fine Arts
PublicationType: Problem in Lieu of a Master's Thesis
Grantor: University of North Texas

Description

Working to unravel my sense of the world and challenge the narratives and beliefs I hold as truths; I have created a reimagined and surreal bathroom that offers a private and vulnerable space filled with hidden horrors. The animated, imperfect, decayed, and cracked bathroom forms bridge the gap between the impermanent fragility of memory and the ongoing beliefs of a personal narrative. I worked to overcome the assumption that, to heal, something must be completely resolved within itself. Instead, I offer that healing is an undescribed area, that is unmeasurable, and it is forever evolving and never finished.

Subjects

Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)

Keyword

studio art

Library of Congress Subject Headings

University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure

Language

English

Item Type

Text

Identifier

Unique identifying numbers for this text in the Digital Library or other systems.

Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc2099068

Relationships

Shower Head Drawing, ark:/67531/metadc2099056
Toilet Drawing, ark:/67531/metadc2099057
I Just Woke Up, ark:/67531/metadc2099058
Bubble Gum Chair, ark:/67531/metadc2099059
Figure & High Chair, ark:/67531/metadc2099060
Figure & High Chair 2, ark:/67531/metadc209906
Figure, ark:/67531/metadc2099062
Tub Drain (detail), ark:/67531/metadc2099063
Shower Head (detail), ark:/67531/metadc2099064
Sink, ark:/67531/metadc2099065
Encaustic Pipes, ark:/67531/metadc2099066
Tub Faucet, ark:/67531/metadc2099067
Title Letters (detail), ark:/67531/metadc2099052
Wilted Tripod, ark:/67531/metadc2099053
Upright Tripod, ark:/67531/metadc2099054
Handle of Tripod (detail), ark:/67531/metadc2099055
Figure & High Chair 2 - ark:/67531/metadc2099061
Install 1 - ark:/67531/metadc2099050
Healing & Reassembling Title - ark:/67531/metadc2099051
Healing & Reassembling Video Documentation - ark:/67531/metadc2099049

Collections

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UNT Graduate Student Works

This collection houses graduate student works other than theses and dissertations. All materials have been previously accepted by a professional organization or approved by a faculty mentor. The collection includes, but is not limited to projects or problems in lieu of thesis, supplemental files associated with theses and dissertations, posters, recitals, presentations, articles, reviews, book chapters, exhibitions, and artwork. Some items in this collection are restricted to use by the UNT community.

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Shower Head Drawing (Artwork)

Work of art on Porcelain, epoxy, underglaze by artist Emily Potts as part of a 2022 MFA exhibition, entitled "Healing & Reassembling" in the the Cora Stafford Gallery South, 1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX 76201, from March 2 to March 5, 2022.