Magic Mountain

My installations are propositions for an imaginary world that relies on its own internal logic, a world of believability without recognition. While the work references landscape it also emphasizes its contrivance, as it is automatically estranged in an "unnatural" gallery setting. I subvert or de-familiarize the materials and processes that I use in the service of creating a fictitious environment. My places are impossible places. They are irregular, illogical, and unstable. Our imagination can be one of most dangerous things to psychological stability as it is an inventory of all things possible, no matter how irrational or improbable. The irrational is always an option, a lingering threat. The imagination seems to hate permissions and limitations, but is nevertheless lodged within them. I want to create a sense of nonsensical logic. If all things that can be imagined are logical possibilities, I want to find the place where fantasy seems to be just barely reality. If I can't have an inherent contradiction, I'll take an apparent one.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sculpture

Year dc:date.available

2005

Author dc:creator

• Al-Hadid, Diana

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kendall Buster

• sculpture
• fiberglass
• place
• myth
• landscape
• genius loci
• architecture
• imagination
• topology
• Arab-American artist
• ornament
• baroque
• arabesque
• Magic Mountain
• Art and Design
• Arts and Humanities

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/827

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1826