Madeline Morocco

Art History and Physics major

Rules

archival inkjet prints

Jewett Hallway Galleries

photo of a woman on a black background with long red hair covering most of her body making a thumbs-up gesture with one hand

photo of a woman on a black background with long red hair covering most of her body clasping both hands in front of her

photo of a woman on a black background with long red hair covering most of her body making a gesture with thumb up, fore- and middle fingers extended with one hand

Inspired by an Italian sculpture of Mary Magdalene praying in the Davis Museum, I wanted to explore my relationship with religion as a physics major raised Catholic. Concealed by red hair as Mary Magdalene was often portrayed, I took a series of photographs of myself changing only my hand gestures-- an image of clasped hands sandwiched by two examples of the Right Hand Rule, gestures used in electromagnetism. The series is meant to emphasize that although often portrayed as polar opposites, physics and religion are not as different as one may think-- they both operate as frameworks with which we can explain our reality.

three photos with black backgrounds and a figure with long red hair making hand gestures hung with clips on a gray fabric wall, viewed from an angle

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