How Can We Grow if We Destroy our Roots? An Analysis of Roots as Metaphor for Growth and Urban Change

Author

Alexis Vaughn, Scripps CollegeFollow

Graduation Year

2010

Document Type

Open Access Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Studio Art

Reader 1

Susan Rankaitis

Reader 2

Ken Gonzales-Day

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© 2010 Alexis Vaughn

Abstract

Roots: They take hold; they grow, expand and change, creating networks and sub-networks as they start to break above the earth's surface and stretch up higher towards the sky day by day. Roots can be taken out (the stock, stem or trunk removed), but both the memory and the evidence of the roots' existence will continue to remain for a while to come. The idea of "roots" applies to so much: from artists taking inspiration from previous artists, even at times to mirror the change in the world which one artist had previously documented; from the places we establish our families and create our memories, to a good deal more.

Comments

Previously linked to as: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,88

OCLC number: 639456557

Recommended Citation

Vaughn, Alexis, "How Can We Grow if We Destroy our Roots? An Analysis of Roots as Metaphor for Growth and Urban Change" (2010). Scripps Senior Theses. 20.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/20