UC San Diego

Collapsing inner and outer vision onto canvas, Sabrina Piersol investigates the value of the fragment as it relates to Sapphic poetry through her environmental abstractions. This thesis paper explores related questions surrounding desire, memory, the natural world, and speculative provocations. Framed through reflexivity that mirrors the making process of the paintings, no grove // no sound situates itself within a contemporary painting dialogue that yearns for connections beyond the material world and a more comprehensive understanding of individual interiority.