Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Ariana Fraser

The Mend

This is a matrilineal history. It is a diaristic recollection of connections that move with the same transience as the material. The abstraction, directly transposed from the pattern on my great grandmother’s blanket: a combination of several blankets, worn and used and given new. In this woven language, I think about my connection to my mother, her presence throughout my research, and the love of her own mother that moves through the both of us."Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the stories of experience witnessed, and carrying forward a recollection of embodied existence.