Date of Award
5-14-2023
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
Advisor(s)
Sam Van Aken
Second Advisor
Jude Lewis
Keywords
Atlantic salmon, fly fishing, land use, Onondaga Lake watershed, research-based art, the archive
Abstract
I track the often imperceptible: ideological undercurrents that fade in and out of comprehension, the hidden knotted roots of cultural mythologies, historical specters conjured anew... It can feel nearly impossible to name the narratives and logic embedded in the spaces we inhabit. Mythologies rooted in excess, exclusion, rampant expansion, and extraction are contrived to justify the sacrifice of peoples, cultures, and lands. My studio practice unearths these ideologies through place-specific materials, (counter-) archives, and traced histories.
In this thesis I use the practice of fly fishing to trace the historical ecology of the Onondaga Lake watershed. To support this framing, I weave together the themes I have focused on throughout my graduate studies, which include historical evolutions in ways of seeing, archiving, and relating to land.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Wiley, Daisy, "Imago River: From Archive to Stream" (2023). Theses - ALL. 710.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/710
