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Thesis
Social notions
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2024
DOI: 10.25820/etd.007321
Abstract
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Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Social notions
- Creators
- Molly Sandweiss
- Contributors
- Kee-Ho Yuen (Advisor)Laurel A Farrin (Committee Member)Lonna R Huisingh (Committee Member)Elizabeth McTernan (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Art
- Date degree season
- Spring 2024
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- DOI
- 10.25820/etd.007321
- Number of pages
- iv, 18 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2024 Molly Sandweiss
- Language
- English
- Date submitted
- 04/23/2024
- Description illustrations
- illustrations
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-18).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
- My work explores the restrictions I place on myself as an autistic person when presenting myself to the world. I consider suppressing my autistic and ADHD traits as a sort of armor I wear for protection; it is also limiting. I am creating literal armor for my body and combining it with sewing notions such as pins, thread, thimbles, and of course, buttons. The armor is an allusion to masking, while sewing notions represent the vulnerable, less desirable sides of myself leaking out, harkening back to the time in my grandma’s sewing room, where there was no suppression or ridicule of my strangeness, only joy. It is important to me that these pieces be worn by my body in particular because though created in response to an unaccepting society, these are still constraints that I have created and placed upon myself. This work represents my journey to feeling safe taking off my armor without being ashamed of the traits that lie beneath.
- Academic Unit
- School of Art, Art History, and Design
- Record Identifier
- 9984647148302771
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