Motherland: Country of the Healer, Country of the Healed
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2015-08-24
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In support of my thesis project and exhibition, Motherland: Country of the Healer, Country of the Healed, this paper contextualizes Motherland, a 66” x 66” hand embroidery on Belgian linen that evolved from a growing body of vision drawings, small gouache and graphite compositions sketched intuitively after meditation, as part of a continuing venture to reconcile the position of self in the world.
Motherland functions as a work of art, a work of craft, a therapeutic process, and a meditative discipline, to raise and address questions about how humans participate in an expanded reality. The metaphysical landscape Motherland depicts speaks to the universal condition of birth and death. The response it offers to this condition is a possibility. The project itself envisions a collective attitude of relatedness: being in the world harmoniously, and facilitating reciprocal relationships with the natural world, spirit, each other, and ourselves.
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Rushton, C. (2015). Motherland: Country of the Healer, Country of the Healed (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27011