An Unknown Road

Abstract

Personally witnessing two horrible car accidents contrasts strongly with my enthusiastic appreciation of the automobile. This collision of feelings is at the heart of what I wish to explore in my thesis work. In this endeavor I want to establish a vocabulary by which I can speak to human emotion and behavior through the imagery of transportation. I do not think of the car as a cold industrial manufactured product but rather as an extension of ourselves, as a kind of mechanical embodiment of our thoughts and feelings. This is the area I wish to explore. I want to set a fictional narrative piece in Henry Art Gallery. What I hope to convey is a re-creation of a nighttime automobile accident which happened in in my imagination. In addition to accident scene I intend to create several kiln-cast damaged human organs and tissues to express the fragility of the human body and consequences to the occurrences I witnessed and I knew. My purpose is to explore a mode which can properly transform the negative energy of the accident into an aesthetic expression based on memory and reflection.