Honors Theses
Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Art and Art History
First Advisor
Brooke White
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
In Time, my BFA solo exhibition, was an installation of three four-foot-by-six-foot looping video projections shone directly onto the walls of Meek Hall's Gallery 130. create this body of work, I performed as both photographer and subject. Performance in its simplest form exists completely autonomous of technology, and when the photographer or videographer documents a performance s/he produces something and more tangible than simply engaging in the performance's live exchange. As I work with time-based media, the idea of time is central to my art-making process and conceptual development. In these works, I alter standard time structures by imposing my figures atop one another and changing the speeds at which their performances play out. My stacked figures' movements merge together into new boundless and illuminated ones, and this visual occurrence comes to represent my delving into the deep state of natural peace that I have discovered-with the help of Eckhart Tolle's The Power o/7Vbw-within myself, beyond my singular body or my mind and its many constructs. These works become sites of meditation for me on an inner consciousness that, ironically, can only be accessed outside of time's confines. My close work with cameras, computers, and related technologies in school have led me to a careful awareness of imaging art as a complex medium with transformative potential, and I invite my audience to 'take time' to view these works, as I believe these visual representations can lead the open viewer closer to a profound state of Being from which our modem world often disguises us.
Recommended Citation
Crawford, Clay Howell, "In Time, BFA Thesis Exhibition by Clay Crawford" (2012). Honors Theses. 1973.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1973
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