A fly has died a splendid death in a pool of strawberry ice cream.

sculpture;nostalgia;memory;trauma;innocence;narritive

Miranda L. Becht

University:University of Louisville

Department:Fine Arts

关键词: sculpture;    nostalgia;    memory;    trauma;    innocence;    narritive;   

Others  :  https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3775&context=etd

美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

Humans have evolved an overwhelming awareness of self, other, life, and death. We have learned to selectively process information and to replace dissociated memories with less disturbing ones. We have evolved this ability to deceive ourselves, thus producing a personal reality that is innately false. As a society we tend to idealize our vision of the past, particularly our vision of home. Our idealized notion of home presents itself as a supposedly traditional form of domestic life, but bears little relation to the way people actually lived. This concept of a cozy home full of family love is an invented tradition. Two poles are created: the ideal and the broken self. The sweetness and pleasure in seeing or recalling certain objects or experiences, that nostalgia, intermingles with feelings of sadness, loss, and regret. Glimmers of memory, perhaps real or perhaps fabricated, become dreamlike flashes in the landscape of our mind. Nostalgia and sentiment can be deconstructed through the frailty and distortion of memory by investigating the reality of lost innocence.