Make contact with your life

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Max B. Baynes (Creator)

Institution

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )

Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/

Advisor

Patricia Wasserboehr

Abstract: This body of artwork is an exploration into feeling connected to a specific plot of land. By combining disparate objects found in the place where I grew up, I am working to reimagine their significance and relationship to each other, the land and to me. The work often alludes to ideas of tension, restraint and breaking through barriers. The materials have a sense of pushing toward or against each other as if they want to burst. Through working with these themes, I like to create sculptures that weave between interior and exterior spaces. These constantly changing visual settings are what I employ to create a rounded experience for the viewer, ideally insinuating the mindful movement I use to make these works. I want the works to read as chaotic and strange, but for there to be a sense of calm at the center of this chaos, like the unscathed awareness that is all around us. Make Contact with Your Life is about acknowledging and letting go of the mental constraints I put on myself in order to fully engage with the idiosyncrasies that make up my life.

Make contact with your life
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Additional Information

Publication

Thesis

Language: English

Date: 2023

Keywords

Art, Family, Material, Sculpture

Subjects

Sculpture, Abstract

Found objects (Art)

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