Delicate Pleasures

Graduate Thesis Or Dissertation

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Citeable URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/w95051356

Abstract

My Masters in Fine Arts thesis show contains two bodies of work. The "Thigh Grasp Comforter's" and ceramic pieces within various contrived contexts. The "Thigh Grasp Comforter", as an idea, are the only pieces where I have reached a conclusion. I do not think I can do any more to enhance the form or idea, and more importantly I do not want to. Its not that I dislike them, for I am pleased at the way they have developed, it is because they are finished statements.

The humour ( as in all my pieces ) is an important part, but at the same time I do not wish it to be blatant. I would hope the viewer is slightly hesitant about laughing. The need to laugh similar to watching someone slipping on ice ( as long as no injuries are sustained ). Next to these is a vase resting between two gold cornices situated above head height. I would say that this is possibly the weakest piece in the show, for it was meant to act as a prop setting the atmosphere within the gallery. It fails for it is too intriguing. Therefore I must see it as a piece. In doing so I realize it is unfinished. I had originally thought of suspending it between the two cornices, but how I am to do this I am still unsure, hence it is incomplete and the possible implications absent.

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