Thesis

A collection to help me figure out my bfa thesis

Henri Bergson

Bergson argued that time has two faces. The first face of time is “objective time”: the time of watches, calendars, and train timetables. The second, la durée (“duration”), is “lived time,” the time of our inner subjective experience. This is time felt, lived, and acted.

I love ana mendieta

Artists to Research (work related to memory)

Regina José Galindo (Guatemala)

Teresa Margolles (Mexico)

Pedro Reyes (Mexico)

Sara Uribe (México)

Doris Salcedo (Colombia)

Erika Diettes (Colombia)

Oscar Muñoz (Colombia)

Jesús Abad Colorado (Colombia)

Cecilia Vicuña (Chile)

Ana Mendieta (Cuba)

Francisco Souto (Venezuela)

Christian Boltanski – Uses photographs, personal belongings, and installation to evoke collective and individual memory, absence, and loss.
On Kawara – His "Today" series and telegram works mark time and memory through repetition and documentation of lived moments.
Sophie Calle – Uses text, photography, and personal narrative to explore intimacy, memory, and the tension between truth and fiction.
Annette Messager – Uses fragmented objects, embroidery, and assemblage to explore memory, identity, and fragility.
Tacita Dean – Explores nostalgia and analog film as a medium of imperfect memory.
Nan Goldin – Her photographic work documents personal relationships and fleeting moments, often with nostalgia and raw intimacy.
Joan Fontcuberta – Explores the unreliability of photographs as documents of memory, creating fabricated archives.
Rachel Whiteread – Her casts of negative spaces (chairs, houses, interiors) preserve the “memory” of absence and lived experience.
Doris Salcedo – Memory of trauma, history, and human connection through sculptural absence and material traces.
William Kentridge – Animation, drawing, and erasure tied to history, forgetting, and memory’s instability.
Chiharu Shiota – Large thread installations that interweave personal objects and memory as interconnected networks.

4-26 thesis statement

Artist Statement

My work is an exploration of personal memory, analog processes, and the layered relationship between humanity and technology. Using cyanotype and illustration, I reflect on my experiences with technology and my family. This part photographic part printmaking practice contrasts with the presence of my hand

Questions to guide my thesis

What are some artists that I really enjoy visually?

Who are some artists that have also made work about memory?

Philosophers / Theorists on Memory & Time

Henri Bergson – Matter and Memory; distinguishes between mechanical recall and lived, fluid memory; emphasizes duration (la durée).
Maurice Halbwachs – Introduced the concept of collective memory (how memory is socially framed and maintained).
Paul Ricoeur – Memory, History, Forgetting; examines memory’s

idea for thesis

what if its a large book on a pedestal and then a sort of tent around it made of cyanotyped collaged fabric

what is the content of the book what is the content of the cyanotyped fabric and how do they relate

Artist statement 1-14-25

Combining mediums has always been of great interest to me. Experimentation to see how different mediums can interact and work together visually. In my practice I am interested in how illustration, printmaking, and embroidery, and animation/experimental film can work together to convey visual narrative and interesting themes.