The diploma work is based on exploration of one’s own identity through family tieas and shared generational history. It emphasizes trauma, painful experiences which in shaped individuals within the family in different ways, and thus the whole family dynamics as well.
Since we are given the capacity to feel, think and imagine, we are designed as very complex beings. We ar often not aware of such complexity. We generalize, disregard and view things very superficially, because we simply don’t want to deal with them. This type of behavior can be seen in our attitude to ourselves and to people around us, especially to our closest ones.
The purpose of the work is to deepen my own and collective awareness of the importance of digging in, exploring and having difficult conversations through the process of creating a bed linen. My intention is to surpass the social stigma around family trauma, by exposing my own experiences and findings, so that we stop sweeping problems under the rug until the pile is to big to move, and to make people aware that by knowing, acknowledging and accepting ourselves, our experiences and actions we bring liberation and restoration to ourselves, our ancestors and future generations.
At the beginning of the theoretical part of the diploma work the focus is on biological development and genetic transmission of trauma and what is its expression in descendants, as well as on the possibilities how to turn the dysfunction into direction of growth. In the second part the focus turns toward analysis of three artists who, by their approach toward art and life in general, have contributed to the forming of the final experimental piece. Additionally, the digital printing technique and embroidery used in the experimental part of the work is described here.
The goal or experimental part of my diploma work is to create a bed linen for a cover and a pillow. This part presents the whole process of drawing, printing and sewing the final product. The purpose of my final textile piece is the message it carries rather than its usage. In its essence it represents a catharsis; moral cleansing through the act of making the art piece.
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