{"id":124017,"date":"2019-05-03T12:31:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=124017"},"modified":"2021-08-13T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:00:52","slug":"voices-from-the-class-of-2019-daisy-diamond-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/03\/voices-from-the-class-of-2019-daisy-diamond-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: For Daisy Diamond &#8217;19 and her sculptures, it&#8217;s touch and go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early April, Daisy Diamond \u201919 and her studio art classmates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/03\/14-studio-art-majors-to-show-work-in-2019-senior-thesis-exhibition\/\">unveiled their artwork<\/a>\u00a0at the 2019 Senior Thesis Exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond\u2019s was a large sculpture, an assemblage of medical sutures, steel, fabric, clay, wax, and thread.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Video by Theophil Syslo<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uAOA1ClG-8E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the opening, she says, \u201cit was cool to see how willing people are to really engage with art when you give them permission to touch things and push things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat kind of tactile engagement with an object can lead to a further, more intimate experience with artwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Diamond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/03\/14-studio-art-majors-to-show-work-in-2019-senior-thesis-exhibition\/#diamond\">noted in her exhibition statement<\/a>, she hopes that her big and wobbly sculptures will prompt racial questions around whiteness and white privilege\u00a0\u2014 &#8220;how whiteness is constructed by thousands of moments, stitches of affirmation, wobbly and waiting to unravel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a viewer is given permission to touch and feel artwork, &#8220;it creates a more intimate experience,&#8221; says Diamond, a studio art major from Bala Cynwyd, Pa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1016,"featured_media":124094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,11010,130],"tags":[11341,12250,11875],"class_list":["post-124017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-collaboration","tag-senior-thesis-exhibition","tag-voices","tag-voices-of-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124017"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124441,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124017\/revisions\/124441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}