“It Washes Through”: Fibre Art and the Intertidal Zone in Contemporary Nova Scotia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis investigates land-based fibre art practices that are carried out in the intertidal zones in the province of Nova Scotia, and the potential for such practices to generate an ecological worldview. To do so, the following pages focus on the processes of three artists, Alexa Bunnell, Doug Guildford, and Katrina Craig, who have all recently used fibre-based practices to engage with the specific character of the intertidal zones. This thesis weaves together evidence from secondary sources with primary material drawn from conversational interviews with the artists. My methodology draws from the diversity of approaches, including critical craft studies, ecocriticism, and new materialism. \nThis thesis briefly analyses different models for engaging with the landscape that were used in the Earth Art movement of the 60s and 70s, in order to locate a process that aligns with Tim Morton’s definition of developing “ecological awareness.” The body of this thesis analyses the themes that arose in the interviews. Firstly, the important role that bodies, materials and environments take in developing self-awareness and ecological awareness, as well as the unique traits of fibre-based processes that lend themselves to this process. Another section inquiries into the way Guildford, Bunnell, and Craig’s work hybridised the technical and artistic applications of fibre art. The last section explores the element of storytelling that takes place through their work, which lends itself to generating an ecological paradigm. \nI contend that Bunnell, Guildford, and Craig’s art-making processes raise ecological awareness beyond the realm of art, in an exchange that social anthropologist Tim Ingold describes as “textility.” This creative modality allows these artists to contribute to generating an ecological paradigm.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".