A Thesis Turned Art Display

At first glance, the reimagined 1924 carousel installed in the Studio Arts Building last winter may have looked like an ordinary merry-go-round. But it was actually Vimoksha—part of the senior thesis exhibition titled The Passing Show by Kathryn Fanelli ’20MFA, who describes it as an “interactive, kinetic sculpture.”

“This is the culmination of a three-year focus that considers bigger questions in our universe of time, illusion, impermanence, and perception,” says Fanelli. Visible to passersby, the carousel lit up from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. each day. “It’s a beacon of light in dark times,” she says, “which I think we all need.”

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Read the full story in the Magazine of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.