Domain: eminent
Date
2013
Authors
Johnson, Amy, author
Bates, Haley, advisor
Lehene, Marius, committee member
Ferrer, Kim, committee member
MacDonald, Bradley, committee member
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Abstract
As an artist with a background in politics, my work is propelled by a need "to do something". I am particularly interested in the crossroads of action and inaction. My work history, the political actions I have organized and participated in, and my transition to the art world lead up to my final body of work. Domain: Eminent is an installation of abstracted claw forms that is a reliquary to fossil fuels. The dueling political tensions between curbing climate change and expanding economic prosperity inspired and motivated this work. The installation honors the beauty and benefits these fuels have brought to our world while at the same time symbolically putting them in their "restful" space as an untouched material.