Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Fragmented mnemonics : an investigation into contemporary jewellery as means of externalizing memory
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis interrogates my own memory in order to illustrate its fragmented and unstable nature. I revisit a specific childhood memory and attempt to recreate it visually through the creation of jewellery pieces. However, the unattainability of a consistent memory becomes incre...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | en_ZA |
| Published: |
Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
2015
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis interrogates my own memory in order to illustrate its fragmented and unstable
nature. I revisit a specific childhood memory and attempt to recreate it visually through the
creation of jewellery pieces. However, the unattainability of a consistent memory becomes
increasingly evident in the process of its externalization. My work thus speaks of the
unravelling of memory, as well as the piecing together and imagining of a new memory. This
thesis and my practical work are an exploration of this ambivalent nature of memory. Even
though memory is concerned with the past, it is also about the present as our memories can
also be manipulated by present prejudices. |
|---|