Publication Date

Spring 5-31-2025

Document Type

Article

First Advisor

Cynthia Hellyer-Heinz

Second Advisor

Helen Nagata

Third Advisor

Millicent Kennedy

Degree Name

M.A. (Master of Arts)

Department

School of Art and Design

Disciplines

Book and Paper | Painting

Abstract

Rewilding attempts to bridge the distance between humanity and nature through play and embodied play. To speak to the permeability of humans to their environment, Hanna Sosin references a wide range of inspirations from Biochemistry and population dynamics to poetry and folklore. Each work is an exploration between medium and substrate to make an open ended narrative; they are improvisations based off of the surface of a panel, the expansion and contraction of a tunnel book, or a series of indelible marks made in balsa wood. Characters and symbols such as the match or candle people repeat throughout her work allowing for non-linear, or horizontal, story telling. Through reiterating symbols and characters, Hanna and the audience in turn builds a living breathing world. A world that only offers brief glimpses and thrills when you fill in the rest. Her work, in this way, is fundamentally about curiosity in the face of the unknown and about the multiplicity of truth.

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