Heavy as a Cloud

dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Amber Lee
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-18T19:02:51Z
dc.date.available2022-08-18T19:02:51Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-18
dc.date.submitted2022-07-22
dc.description.abstractHeavy as a Cloud is a collection of phenomena that alludes to the fragility and transience of life; clouds drifting away, waves rolling in, flowers fading in the sun, a lingering fragrance, and crumbling sandcastles. Using photographic and sculptural mediums, this exhibition considers human experiences such grief and memory, mediated through everyday objects and elements of nature, to represent states of impermanence. Exploring how grief can be contained within objects and photographs, but also felt in the world around us, this work investigates some of the ways in which we contain loss. Using ephemeral themes and materials, the work asks the questions: How do you hold something that doesn’t exist? And how will we be remembered after we die? This work resides in a place of desire or longing to hold things that cannot be held, to fix a moment that is gone, to make physical things out of the intangible.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/18574
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectgriefen
dc.subjectlossen
dc.subjectphotographyen
dc.subjectexperimental photographyen
dc.subjectPolaroidsen
dc.subjectanthotypesen
dc.subjectcyanotypesen
dc.subjectmotherhooden
dc.subjectmotheren
dc.subjectfamilyen
dc.subjectephemeralen
dc.subjectabsence and presenceen
dc.subjectdeathen
dc.subjectnostalgiaen
dc.subjectmemoryen
dc.titleHeavy as a Clouden
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Fine Artsen
uws-etd.degree.departmentFine Artsen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineFine Arts (Studio Art)en
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws-etd.embargo.terms0en
uws.contributor.advisorCooper, Tara
uws.contributor.advisorCluett, Cora
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Artsen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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