Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
My Studio Art Honors Project engages the grid as a contradictory format: one that simultaneously represents empirical order (graphs and maps), and a domestic visual language that rejects a single point of view (weaving). Gradual Disordering exists within this tension: referencing cluttered interior space, non-linear organizations, and repetition as world-building. I layer materials–photos, archival images, and journal pages–into multiple woven, painted, and ceramic abstractions. Nest-like objects perch out of reach, viewed from below. Large-scale grids and paper weavings warp in space, looked at and looked past. With additions and deletions in each iteration, the grid continually changes.
Recommended Citation
Brand, Billie June, "Gradual Disordering" (2026). Art and Art History Honors Projects. 27.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/art_honors/27
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Comments
I am grateful for the intelligence I have found in my objects, friends, and books; fiction and otherwise that have come to shape my point of view as both alien and potent. I want to thank Summer Hills-Bonczyk for her mentorship; Chris Wilcox, for providing me with physical space and continual encouragement to keep “not making sense”; Aurora Masum-Javed for introducing me to the world of portals and the practice of abstracting grief through play, poetry, and experimentation; and Sabina Vaught, for teaching intimacy as an analytic: that our intimate lives are not severed from our analytical ones, but mirrored and distilled accumulative practices. I want to thank my family—Jenny and Luke— who have only ever expanded my definitions of care and creating. This work would not have been possible without you.