{"id":13244,"date":"2018-05-11T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T19:47:33","slug":"michael-hamiltons-daughter-olivia-2018-bfa-thesis-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/2018\/05\/11\/michael-hamiltons-daughter-olivia-2018-bfa-thesis-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Hamilton’s daughter, Olivia, 2018 BFA Thesis Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AS<\/strong> Reported by BU Today 05.09.2018<\/span> By Sara Frazier (COM\u201920). Photos by Maddie Malhotra (COM\u201919)<\/span><\/div>\n
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2018 BFA Thesis Exhibition: A Reflection of 42 Individual Journeys (click for complete article)<\/a><\/h3>\n

Painting, printmaking, graphic design, sculpture on display at 808 Gallery through Friday (5\/11)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Olivia Hamilton (CFA\u201918) in front of her BFA thesis project, Extractions<\/em>, which features repurposed materials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Adjacent to Hughes\u2019 eye-popping creation is another sculpture, this one a bit less tranquil. Extractions<\/em> by Olivia Hamilton (CFA\u201918) appears at first glance to be a heap of garbage. On closer inspection, the viewer can see that amid wood structures are tattered cloths that have been sewn together into jackets and other articles of clothing. There are also patches of grass, plants, and even fabric arms that jut out near a large hut-like creation. The work has a decidedly political undertone, addressing the way we consume\u2014and willingly dispose of\u2014material.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of guilt about making art in the first place, because it\u2019s sort of useless, and I\u2019m spending my time making useless things,\u201d Hamilton says. \u201cI have guilt about using materials knowing that a lot of it will become garbage.\u201d The artist says she wanted to repurpose fabric and other materials and extract as much life from them as possible. She began by taking discarded bolts of fabric and first making jackets with them, then using them for what she calls anti-fashion garments, and finally, shaping them into sculpture. Along the way, Hamilton made a video showing her layering the jackets on top of one another, then created a book from her photo shoot of the anti-fashion clothing; both video and book are on display in the gallery. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of like recycling, but I don\u2019t like that word,\u201d Hamilton explains.<\/p>\n

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Additional pictures by MHS.<\/p>\n

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AS Reported by BU Today 05.09.2018 By Sara Frazier (COM\u201920). Photos by Maddie Malhotra (COM\u201919) 2018 BFA Thesis Exhibition: A Reflection of 42 Individual Journeys (click for complete article) Painting, printmaking, graphic design, sculpture on display at 808 Gallery through Friday (5\/11) Olivia Hamilton (CFA\u201918) in front of her BFA thesis project, Extractions, which features […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13618,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}