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Download or read book A Piece of Dust in the Great Sea of Matter written by Melissa Borman and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying a subject-driven methodology, Melissa Borman's portrait series A Piece of Dust in the Great Sea of Matter negotiates the historical tropes of passive representation of women within the natural world. During recuperation following an injury, Borman researched images of the human figure in the landscape while reading The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Struck by the relationship between Plath's declarations of confinement with traditional visual representations of women in nature, Borman paired textual fragments with unconventional portraits of fellow artists, colleagues, and former teammates engaged in subject-initiated interactions such as throwing rocks, swimming underwater, or hands tracing along the rock walls of a cave. An evolving archive of images of agency, Borman's portraits propose that the marginalized body can exist, if temporally, without threat of violence and encourages active intersectionality to investigate our own visibility with attention to and in support of others.