Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>In textiles, installations, and interactive performances, I explore how spiritual practice becomes art practice. My experiences as a hospice volunteer, musician, and Buddhist inform my work’s focus on contemplating impermanence as a path to spiritual transformation. Artmaking is a vehicle for exploring the nature of my reality, and both communicating what I find and sharing the path itself. I take inspiration from mystic/artists such as Hilma af Klint, Sengai Gibon, and Agnes Martin, who have sought to expound the path of awakening in artistic form.</p> <p>In content as well as process, my work explores notions of empathy, awareness, ceremony, and aspiration. I seek to create an empathetic experience of meditative calm through subtle stitching. I externalize meditation in drawings and paintings, translating awareness practices into physical existence. I create improvised spiritual ceremonies using music and chanting, bringing ancient traditions into contemporary forms, to include others in my contemplative work as an offering. I utilize poetry to create a sense of aspiration, translating my highest ideals into material form. By bringing my spiritual exploration into the realm of the physical with artmaking, I hope to give others a piece of what I have received from the spiritual path – a calmness, a sense of the preciousness of life, and in the intention of serving others, a purpose for living.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Graduate School of Art
- Year dc:date.available
- 2024
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Geiger, Jordan
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Lisa Bulawsky
- Cheryl Savage Wassenaar
- Thomas Reed
Subjects
dc:subject × 8Rights
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mfa_visual_art/23
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:openscholarship.wustl.edu:mfa_visual_art-1024