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Mend: a personal exploration of healing
As the title suggests, this dissertation text deals with repair, and while 'mending' also refers to sewing, here I use it in conjunction with healing and the transformation of an inner conflict. Coming from a family of embroiderers in Austria I use needle and thread as my tools and physical objects...
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2016
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| author | Niederhumer, Gina |
| author2 | Zaayman, Carine |
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| description | As the title suggests, this dissertation text deals with repair, and while 'mending' also refers to sewing, here I use it in conjunction with healing and the transformation of an inner conflict. Coming from a family of embroiderers in Austria I use needle and thread as my tools and physical objects as triggers in search of what has been forgotten or repressed. The work centers largely around a shared history between my mother and myself, which though marked by many separations, the love for needlework connects us again and provides a meeting place that bridges the divide caused by absences in the past and in the present. Divided into two columns, 'academic' and 'personal', in subtitled paragraphs elaborate and reflect on 'memory', 'family narrative', 'trauma', 'needlework' and 'art-making as a way of personal transformation' in an attempt to understand the story of my life and how it fits into the larger family narrative. The catalog section of the text lists the art works that resulted from this engagement with my personal story, while the accompanying artists book offers an in-death view into the process. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20624 Mend: a personal exploration of healing Niederhumer, Gina Zaayman, Carine Saptouw, Fabian Fine Art As the title suggests, this dissertation text deals with repair, and while 'mending' also refers to sewing, here I use it in conjunction with healing and the transformation of an inner conflict. Coming from a family of embroiderers in Austria I use needle and thread as my tools and physical objects as triggers in search of what has been forgotten or repressed. The work centers largely around a shared history between my mother and myself, which though marked by many separations, the love for needlework connects us again and provides a meeting place that bridges the divide caused by absences in the past and in the present. Divided into two columns, 'academic' and 'personal', in subtitled paragraphs elaborate and reflect on 'memory', 'family narrative', 'trauma', 'needlework' and 'art-making as a way of personal transformation' in an attempt to understand the story of my life and how it fits into the larger family narrative. The catalog section of the text lists the art works that resulted from this engagement with my personal story, while the accompanying artists book offers an in-death view into the process. 2016-07-22T13:20:29Z 2016-07-22T13:20:29Z 2016 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20624 eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Mend: a personal exploration of healing |
| title_full | Mend: a personal exploration of healing |
| title_fullStr | Mend: a personal exploration of healing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mend: a personal exploration of healing |
| title_short | Mend: a personal exploration of healing |
| title_sort | mend a personal exploration of healing |
| topic | Fine Art |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20624 |
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