Mary Stewart

Contact: Office: FAB 414 mstewart3@fsu.edu Artwork Link: marystewart.info Area(s) of Teaching: Foundations courses (2D, 3D and Time Design; Drawing), Printmaking, Bookarts School: Indiana University-Bloomington

Statement

My artwork deals with cyclical conceptions of time, memory and knowledge.

Learning Series, an installation of twelve 82x42" mixed medium drawings, is the most extensive result to date. Recurrent images of train stations, clocks, ocean, boundaries, and gates suggest the connections between memory and knowledge described by Socrates in the Plato’s dialogues. Twelve drawings are shown on four walls, surrounding the viewer with a series of triptychs, each consisting of three titles: Learning to Sink, Learning to Swim, Learning to Breathe. As the viewer scans the room, the repeated titles create a cycle of death, transition and renewal.