Dominique Elliott

Through a Glass Darkly

My work begins in reverse: with a title. My interest in the interplays of words and image, in transpositions, translations, phenomenology, epistolary works, reverse ekphrastic practice, has crept into my artistic practice in many different guises. In Through a Glass Darkly, I explore the obscurity and fragmentation of the self through nostalgic references to vintage fabrics, shattered ceramics and other wistful references to childhood. It is concerned with a certain sense of “saudade” in the context of autobiographical memory.

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Dominique Elliott is a multimedia artist and professor. She holds an M.F.A in visual design from UMass, Dartmouth and is a grant recipient from the Georgia Council for the Arts, and the National Association of Television Program Executives. Much of her work is concerned with various facets of memory, nostalgia and the interplays of word and image. She can be found @ElliottDominou.