COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Touchstones
Creator:
Wimer, Kathryn S.
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Photography
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Photography
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
Touchstones, examines the ways in which people experience and construct
notions of place in an increasingly transient society. In the midst of modern diaspora,
any fixed or stable sense of locality is becoming increasingly blurred and destabilized.
The growing speed, convenience, and affordability of mass transit and electronic
communications have acted as catalysts for the evaporation of definitive territories and
the carrying of history and cultures across borders. The landscapes of our past become
touchstones–things to which we return and against which we compare, places from
which we venture out.
notions of place in an increasingly transient society. In the midst of modern diaspora,
any fixed or stable sense of locality is becoming increasingly blurred and destabilized.
The growing speed, convenience, and affordability of mass transit and electronic
communications have acted as catalysts for the evaporation of definitive territories and
the carrying of history and cultures across borders. The landscapes of our past become
touchstones–things to which we return and against which we compare, places from
which we venture out.
Abstract:
Through Touchstones, I have enjoyed the opportunity to examine the connections
between two locations, Minnesota and Georgia, observing the stacking and translation
of meaning between these two locales and the blurring of borders and boundaries of
time and space between them. In this photographic series, photographs from my
childhood home of Minnesota and current residence in Georgia flow together to
construct a metaphor for a layered and decentered sense of place.
between two locations, Minnesota and Georgia, observing the stacking and translation
of meaning between these two locales and the blurring of borders and boundaries of
time and space between them. In this photographic series, photographs from my
childhood home of Minnesota and current residence in Georgia flow together to
construct a metaphor for a layered and decentered sense of place.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2013-05
Format:
PDF : 23 p. : ill