Kelsey Gruber: capstone
| dc.contributor.author | Gruber, Kelsey, artist | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-02T21:31:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-02T21:31:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | Colorado State University Art and Art History Department capstone project. | |
| dc.description | Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, and images of works. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The artist's statement: My work explores the phenomenon of death as a portal. I transmute antiquated objects into something new through various types of preservation. I let most of my materials come to me through happenstance, or what I believe to be fate. This implies that the materials have died in some way, whether it be a literally dead specimen or a metaphorically dead object: one that is obsolete, or has been given up by its previous owner. I take these objects and I conserve their liminal attributes in a way that protects, honors, and holds as sacred. I use vinyl plastic furniture wrap to preserve larger found objects that associate to the daily home (chairs, fence). I custom "tailor" the plastic wrap to each object and hand-sew the wrap along with the "ruined" parts of the found object; perceived brokenness. By honoring the broken parts, the pieces are given a new meaning and new life through preservation. For more natural materials like the wasp nests and dead flora, I apply coats of clear protective spray enamel to harden their structure and in some cases to add shine. This elongates their lives and "freezes" them in the state of death - this state becomes a portal to rebirth. By combining notions of overgrowth and death with preservation and protection, my work creates a liminal yet everlasting portal. This transformation shifts our common narratives around death into something continuous rather than something that is final. I have been curious about death from a young age, and I needed to come up with a way that I could connect with death in a factual, but meaningful way. Death does not only exist in the cessation of life: it exists in creation and all throughout life in terms of rebirth. Death is not an end, it is in fact a cycle that is as close to us as our waking lives. Between these moments of constant death and life is where I find the fibers of creation; the poetry of existence; the honey and the egg. | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | Student works | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/236430 | |
| dc.language | English | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Sculpture | |
| dc.rights | Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. | |
| dc.subject | sculpture | |
| dc.title | Kelsey Gruber: capstone | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type | Image | |
| dcterms.rights.dpla | This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights (https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/). You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Art and Art History | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Undergraduate | |
| thesis.degree.name | Capstone |
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