Abstract

Yes, I Think So? is a body of work that explores memory as something unstable and alterable by emotion, time, and lived experience. Influenced by my experience with epilepsy, the show meditates on how dreams, seizures, and waking life can blur together, fracturing a sense of consistency and continuity. Rather than thinking of memory as a definitive record of the past, I encounter it as a process of reconstruction. Wood serves as both a material and a metaphor. It records time visibly with its growth yet remains unpredictable in its resistance to complete control. Indigo dye moves the work farther from realism, filtering domestic forms with a dreamy hue. Together, the sculptures are grounded in everyday experience, while the materials work to suggest instability and change. Louise Bourgeois’s and Dorothea Tanning’s use of domestic space and dreamlike disorientation in their works inspired my use of home as a container for memory. Quilted thresholds, illuminated houses, sculptural phrases, and mirrored warnings work to transform the gallery space into one shaped by uncertainty. In its essence, the show is autobiographical but is not solely about illness. It asks whether home can be a condition rather than a fixed place. It is continuously reshaped.

Publication Date

5-2026

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Furniture Design (MFA)

Department, Program, or Center

Design, School of

College

College of Art and Design

Advisor

Andy Buck

Advisor/Committee Member

Rolf Hoeg

Advisor/Committee Member

Anthony Jimenez

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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