Slack and tension: a journey of the spirit
- WCU Author/Contributor (non-WCU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Brad Leigh Wines (Creator)
- Institution
- Western Carolina University (WCU )
- Web Site: http://library.wcu.edu/
- Advisor
- Seth McCormick
Abstract: The work for this exhibit is focused on the physical and psychological concepts of slack and tension. When there is tension, in body or mind, there follows a time of slack or rest. This exhibit includes the following sculptural materials: wood, cotton thread, copper rods, and my own blood, suspended in acrylic medium. The exhibition comprises four works, three of which include drawings executed directly on the wall in blood. Each wall piece will use both copper rods and strips of charred wood bound together with cotton thread, creating linear constructions, parallel to the wall surface, that function as graphic overlays of the wall drawings. Each of these three pieces measures about 7 feet by 7 feet. The fourth work features a 2 foot wide by 8 foot long track of imprinted footprints in charcoal, executed on the floor.
The exhibition is meant to offer a personal reflection on spirituality, human experience and the resolution of physical and psychological tension. Artists of reference include Robert Irwin, Richard Long and Eva Hesse.
Slack and tension: a journey of the spirit
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2013
- Keywords
- blood drawing, body art, enso, Spirituality
- Subjects
- Installations (Art)
- Body and soul in art
- Spirituality in art