Anne Feller — Drawing/Painting BFA Thesis Exhibition
On display, Visual Arts Complex, 3rd Floor Project Room #370
Exhibition statement: "Thoughts of Home" explores the intersection between the ideas of home and memory. My overall body of work focuses on family, memory, and the passage of time. By encasing these remembrances in wax through encaustic practices, I hope to preserve these thoughts in an unchanging space. As an extension of family relations, this installation has turned to the theme of “home;” a term which holds vast depth, yet is vaguely defined depending on the time, the place, and the person. Is “home” a geography, a feeling, a structure, or a physical surrounding? It holds weight in the past, the present, and the future in contrasting understandings. “Home:” once a place for family to gather and expand, now carried on by remnants of memory that feel airy and detached. “Home:” currently a transitory space defined less by the shelter it provides, and more by the familiarity of its surroundings. “Home:” a hope for the future, although disjointed and out-of-reach, holding desire for a stable space to develop new beginnings. Through "Thoughts of Home," I attempt to examine the multiple ways of understanding these ideas of "home," and how memory can play a role in abstracting these perceptions.