Currency: The Fantastic Festival of the Mind

Author

Kristen Marie Vise

Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Art and Art History

First Advisor

Virginia Chavis

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

Currency: The Fantastic Festival of the Mind is an exploration of memory and ephemerality through abstracted imagery originating in the wonder of childhood, the magic of festivals, and the divinity of nature. In the work, an underlying “current” or essence of wonder serves as the “currency” of subjects ranging from carousels to clocks to Sycamore trees. The work explores fragmented concepts of time and memory that intertwine with whimsical imagery in the mind over time, leading to the development of fanciful percepdons and reassembled experience. Pulling from sources as diverse as Environmental Graphic Design, contemporary grapic design. Surrealism, and German Expressionism, Currency is a large-scale drawing installation of lines, colors, and fantastic imagery. Developed over the course of two years and produced by hand in two weeks. Currency was open to the public as an exhibition in Gallery 130 in Oxford, Mississippi, from December 5-9, 2011.

Recommended Citation

Vise, Kristen Marie, "Currency: The Fantastic Festival of the Mind" (2012). Honors Theses. 2268.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2268

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