Drafts by Jessica Nicole Ramas Manuel
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This thesis focuses on the artworks of Filipina-American artist, Pacita Abad. Trapunto, derived ... more This thesis focuses on the artworks of Filipina-American artist, Pacita Abad. Trapunto, derived from a thirteenth-century Italian technique of embroidering or quilting, is both a medium and technique that incorporates found materials, stitching, layering of fabric, painting or dyeing. I therefore focus on the allusions to material and the techniques of creating trapuntos in order to investigate how this is particularly significant in the idea of cultural identity. Furthermore, within the three chapters of this thesis, I will investigate the ways in which Abad’s trapuntos, whether conceptually through the narratives portrayed within them, or through the techniques by which they are made and constructed inform the historical and contemporary issues of surrounding the Filipino identity. Informed by postcolonial and decolonial frameworks, I seek to decentralise this collective idea of the “Filipino Identity” by beginning to addressing how this problem first manifests within the national context and consequently, by continuing to explore how Abad in relation to both historical and current developments in the (Western) art world, subverts the narrative of modernism often upheld by art institutions and art historical discourse.
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Drafts by Jessica Nicole Ramas Manuel