Hey May
Origins. Birth. Mothers of disconnection. Ghosts. Investigation and Puzzles. Tethering. Fertility and barrenness. Lineage, physical and imposed. Rebuilding from damage. Reconstructing for knowledge. Imagining wholeness from devastation. Reconnecting to strengthen the severed, the scarred, damaged, resiliant heart.
Revamped Outline for Dissertation
Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Art of Brokenness, Chaos, and Repair
Table of Contents
Abstract
Context
1. BROKENNESS
What is brokenness
Theory
Auto Theoretically
What has been broken
Severing of maternal connections
War and displacement
Refugee/immigration
Stranger in a strange land/family
Origins of brokenness in my practice
In Art
Fragmentation
Destruction
Picassiette overview/origins
Methodologically
Broken material vs breaking material
Pre-emptive breaking
Observation
2. CHAOS
What is Chaos
Theory
Bricolage (Levi-Strauss)
Deconstruction
Displacement/disruption
Auto Theoretically
Evidence of destruction, brokenness
Homelessness/r
Mental illness
Divorce
Disempowerment
In Art
Practitioners
Methodologically
Disorganization
Disconnection
Drawing
3. REPAIR
What is Repair
a.Theory
1. Levi-Strauss
2 . Elizabeth Spelman
3. Robert Persig
b.Auto Theoretically
1. Search/Discovery
2.Art Practice
3.Acceptance
c. In Art
1.Mosaic/Bricolage
2.Retelling Histories (postcolonialism, queerness)
d.Methodologically
1.Re/construction, re/composition re/invention
Literature Review
Contemporary theories on brokenness in society/culture
Methodology
Practical
Experimental
Images
Exhibition (catalog?)
Process photos
Artist practitioners
Conclusion
Index
Bibliography