Drawing

e-mail: pamela.caughey@umontana.edu
website: www.pamelacaughey.com
MFA Thesis Paper (pdf): Disquietude

Bio

Pamela Caughey is a graduate student in the MFA program in painting and drawing at The University of Montana. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Biochemistry and currently lives in Hamilton, Montana.

Statement

I was deeply impacted by what I saw while visiting relatives in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. These cities show few traces of the atomic bombs of 1945; yet, the scars, reminders and memorials remain. Bodies vaporized by the explosion have left afterimages of human shadows etched on building walls. The repercussions, immediate and delayed, affect future generations on both psychological and genetic levels. Yet, life perseveres despite thousands of designs to destroy it. With macro and micro images, this exhibit attempts to explore what can never be fully expressed—the horrific threat of mass destruction on a global scale posed by 8200 latent warheads—as well as the hope and contemplation of what may lie beyond.