Date of Award
Spring 5-10-2023
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art
Degree Type
Thesis
Abstract
I make toxic pastoral paintings in the style of the Dutch and Old Masters, and media installations which depict natural landscapes as distanced, deconstructed forms. What I explore most in my practice is our damaged relationship with land and nature, and our capitalist and media ecologies as artificial landscapes which suspend us from the natural. In a dissection of the dualisms of man and nature, and progress and sustainability, I create microcosms of our detached condition.
Language
English
Program Chair
Lisa Bulawsky
Thesis Text Advisor
Meghan Kirkwood
Thesis Text Advisor
Monika Weiss
Faculty Mentor
Meghan Kirkwood
Committee Member
Jamie Adams
Committee Member
Heather Bennett
Committee Member
Patricia Olynyk
Recommended Citation
Slone, Samantha, "This is a Present from a Small, Distant World" (2023). MFA in Visual Art. 11.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mfa_visual_art/11
Artist's Statement
I make toxic pastoral paintings in the style of the Dutch and Old Masters, and media installations which depict natural landscapes as distanced, deconstructed forms. What I explore most in my practice is our damaged relationship with land and nature, and our capitalist and media ecologies as artificial landscapes which suspend us from the natural. In a dissection of the dualisms of man and nature, and progress and sustainability, I create microcosms of our detached condition.