Thesis process archive — ELIZABETH MIHALTSE LINDY

This space is intended as an analysis and planning bulletin board for LesleyMFA Semester 4 Thesis project.

I am trying to connect to something that is…
(Meaningful)
(Larger than Self)
(Motherhood)
(The role of woman)

The cave is a place of retreat, trying to illuminate,
(The Self)
Trying to commune with other women.
(And past generations of Family)

Grappling with the fear of darkness,
(My own darkness)
And finding the technology to leave the cave.
(A shedding)
(Shedding doubt)
(Shedding shame)

This is the journey.

Is this a terrible journey or a beautiful journey,
(It’s the journey)
Let the painting become the portal.

Broad themes are that of Illumination, Transcendence, Body, Emergence, Material, Re-materializing, Dissolving. Traces. Becoming and Presence. Nature. Nurture. The Duality of Female Archetypes. The Grotesque, the Awesome. Creation. Destruction. Catharsis. The Sublime. Conjuring Apparitions. Ritual. Passage. A Centering.
Bachelard’s concept of Intimate Immensity. Power of Scale. Intimacy of the minute.
Sentinel: custodian, guard, guardian, keeper, lookout, minder, sentry, warden, warder, watch, watcher, watchman. Where is the presence? Are we the watcher or is the object the watcher?