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Madeline Morocco:

Remember a Place Not Here
 
Madeline Morocco
Art History and Physics major
 
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Rules
archival inkjet prints
Jewett Hallway Galleries
 
 
person standing on black background, body covered with long red hair, one hand held in front making a thumbs up gesture  person on a black background, long red hair covering most of their body, hands clasped in front  person standing on black background, long red hair mostly covering their body, one hand in front gesturing with thumb and forefinger out
 

Inspired by an Italian sculpture of Mary Magdalene praying in the Davis Museum, I wanted to explore my relationship with religion as a physics major raised Catholic. Concealed by red hair as Mary Magdalene was often portrayed, I took a series of photographs of myself changing only my hand gestures-- an image of clasped hands sandwiched by two examples of the Right Hand Rule, gestures used in electromagnetism. The series is meant to emphasize that although often portrayed as polar opposites, physics and religion are not as different as one may think-- they both operate as frameworks with which we can explain our reality.

 

three photographs of a person with long red hair making hand gestures on a black background, installed on a gray fabric wall, viewed from a slight angle

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