Visualizations of Liminality
Abstract
The dominant visual trope in my work is the single, isolated figure in an exterior, usually public, place. Focused on the human concerns of disconnection and unfinished journeys, I anchor my art in personal experience as a source of knowledge. Having the quality of a pentimento, the artwork I make is a visualization of experience, as a telling and retelling of the past, contingent on the present. The work is an on-going elaboration and discovery of aspects of the personal, one characterized by irrevocable change and turning points. Adapting the methodology of interpretive autoethnography to my lived experience—as a former caregiver for a relative with Alzheimer’s Disease and aphasia—I frame the personal with theories of the liminal passage. To model these ideas visually, I enlarged a lens-based practice from the single digital photograph to photomontage and currently to the moving image as digital video. This document is a record of the evolution of my art practice while in the MFA program.
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Fine Arts
Citation
Borgatta, F. (2016). Visualizations of Liminality (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28652