This thesis is about the process of learning about place as a center of meaning through the material and metaphorical manipulation of clay. The idea of sediment provides a framework that unites its conceptual, methodological and visual foundations. The concept of place refers to a location, locale, and their associated meanings, deposited by inhabitants through time like sediment. Clay, a sediment of rock erosion and deposit of weathering, lends plasticity to material experimentation in the studio. Clay, as artifacts like pottery, also represents the sediment of human occupation, lending metaphorical meanings in the studio and as visual art. The visual language also includes fossils, the sediment of living bodies, and a sense of impermanence intrinsic to place and meanings. The art practices, exploration in place and experimentation in the studio, work through the sediment to create the art exhibition, Consider the Sediment, a visual experience for exploring meanings in place.
Clarissa Yeap (Mon,) studied this question.