President's Showcase
Natalie Lusk
Supervising Professor: Rob Duarte
Natalie is in her third year of pursuing a BFA in studio art and a BA in philosophy with an astrophysics minor. She uses her philosophy and science coursework to inform the content and goals of her art practice, and her career goal is to build a research practice informed by the intersections and disparities of these disciplines. Her output includes writings and artworks, and the material philosophy of her art practice is that any form of matter may be used as an art material. She is currently considering systems theory, logic, architectural/informational structures, and human life.
Abstract
"Findings I" is a collection of small-scale artworks that are the products of my thoughts on metaphysical questions about the persistence of systems. These questions are about the concepts of growth and decay; interaction between separate systems; birth and death; and the apparent dualism of information of matter within all systems. Made of materials like rust, thread, found objects of daily use, and pigment, the resulting artworks are merged instances of universal patterns, human specificity, and chance. A complete digital documentary of the works to be published online is the final stage of the project. This documentary includes images of process, important fragments of text from my writings about the works, and the final works themselves.
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