Diane Fellows
Diane Fellows
Associate Professor
Lead Department Advisor
Introduction:
The following pages presents Creative Scholarship and Presentations listed in my Dossier (pgs 13-16), works produced after 2009, as well as works in progress.
The intersection between architecture, photography, and film/video is about story telling. In the telling of our stories, remembrance and memory intercedes in our conversations, guides our affections, moves us through places we inhabit, and resides in the places we create. I am curious how we shape new contexts for our lives within the temporal and spatial condition of geographies we travel through such as a street, a building, a room, and how we engage space and time with each other, if, only, momentarily. Through my work, I seek to affirm the relationship between the image and viewer, between place and participant.
I focus on personal and collective stories that are often unacknowledged, unseen, or disallowed by the circumstances of one’s cultural or religious background or the social or political constraints of one’s physical space. These stories exist between comfort and disquietude, between home and relocation, between settlement and exile. Structured by my personal experience of the effects of diaspora on family through generations, I find the shape of these stories circuitous, moving backwards and forwards through time.
