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modeled for demonstration of scale and interaction
Graduates
Jean-Paul Miller
BFA in Fine Art — Fine ArtThe Fool
This began my excursion into design for structures of bodily and psychological torture. It takes its form from Pillory, a wooden framework for physiological entrapment. Historically, subjects confined to this structure, suspected or convicted of any number of different crimes, were subject to public trial, humiliation, and/or abuse. In absence of a captive, implies a curious tension. Who is the fool here? In this sense, I feel it becomes a fertile symbol.
Learning Outcomes:
This was my first foray into what I would define as more strictly sculpture, with intent to exhibit a deliberate meaning and form in 3 dimensions for an audience. I learned how to achieve the form with recycled materials, and I began to understand how my interest in theatrical, figurative, and kinesthetic intersects sculptural convention, and it was an enormous leap in my practice to arrive at this.