Pillar of salt

Abstract

In my Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Pillar of Salt, I return to my most familiar actions to explore the events and cycles of a generations-long personal history touching on mission work, trauma, and gender. The exhibition reveals a personal iconography, distilling my maternal generational narrative into a few potent images and actions, such as ruins and vessels, flora and fauna, packing and unpacking, and cutting and stitching. This exploration results in an open-ended query in which metaphor is the primary method of navigating the unknown.