Maria Amidu
Making that remembers: how can the bonding properties of materials make emotion tangible?
Summary
How can we fully know what someone else is experiencing emotionally and how might this knowing catalyse the ways we understand cognitive dissonance, trauma and what gets stuck between broken and mended within an ecosystem (of a family). How can this reveal the strengths of experiencing life in the in-between – perhaps the critical space for radical, meaning making of self to materialise.
Through the manipulation of plastic artistic materials, I am asking if making can remember emotion – can the making elicit ways to embody rather than merely represent the emotional state of the maker? How can the bonding and sticking properties and the window of opportunity inherent during making of and making with clay, paper and pigment in association with water make a liminal, dissonant, ‘unspeakable’ state tangible?
Additional info
I am using a practice research, experimental, iterative, writing, autoethnographic method to excavate the artistic application of materials and written forms of expression.
