Cassandra Ferguson MFA Print Media Thesis 2022
Portals
In essence, this body of work represents the process of coming to know my own spirituality. Ultimately, spirituality is a mindset. When I ride my skateboard, my mind and body harmonize to bring focus to the very moment I am part of. This moment is my idea of spirituality. I consider the combination of the architecture of skate spots and my movement through them to function as a portal into a spiritual state of mind. By creating a collaged lithographic composition of the skate spots I frequent, I am able to understand their spiritual value. In this mural I showcase that, despite being at different locations, I can enter the same state of mind. The mural depicts various geographic areas that are represented as abstractions of the real locations. Across from the mural, there is a series of photogravure etchings depicting images corresponding to each skate spot represented in the lithographs. This piece, in total, communicates the ways in which these physical places are transformed in my mind to become spiritual by way of my interaction with them.