PARTIAL BODY
MFA THESIS EXHIBITION4/30/2021 – 5/23/2021
THE MAJESTIC GALLERIES, NELSONVILLE, OHIO

In a body
tenuous
paradoxical
absurd
Solidity disintegrates, a false comfort.
Body made partial through distance, gesture, alienation,
Barrier, shrouding body from air and eyes. Artificial skin.
Partition, preserving deep shadows. Body, sealed in plastic. Elongated gaze.
Claustrophobia, comfort. Panic punctuated by deep calm.
In a chamber, sealed in plastic, observing a body in a chamber sealed in plastic, being observed by a body in a chamber, wrapped in plastic, body observes body as a chamber, body observes body observing body.
Outside, a glimpse of the apparatus. A tube extends from sealed plastic, breaching the perimeter.
umbilical cord
a hole,
lots of holes
liminal
Orifice breaching, threatening, to destabilize.
Signify
slit
gash
wound
A prop, apropos
Artifice, deception, obsession
Playing
parts play their parts
partial parts, body parts
partial body