Mind's Eye

MFA Thesis Exhibition

by Sammi Eady

Exhibition: March 31 - April 4, 2026

Reception: Saturday, April 4th, 6-8p

Mind’s Eye is an exhibition revealing the contention between how the mind and the body remember a space.

From childhood homes, first jobs, and card games, landmarks from my past are mapped through ongoing perception rather than fixed recordings. Relying on mind palaces and other mnemonic devices, both somatic and psychological approaches of visualization result in mixed perspective landscapes. Vulnerable fabrics bunch with memory. Artifacts extracted from these mappings indulge in their permeability.

Mind’s Eye is a metaphysical world in which memory is re-imbued into the blueprints of its infrastructures, embracing the distortion of perception that happens during repeated recollection.

More About Sammi

In my practice, I navigate themes of memory and embodiment through fiber art. Stemming from an urgency to recite and document domestic interiors current and past, I rely on transmissive recollection to reconstruct these sites under both trusting and skeptical guises. My work harnesses formal qualities of color, perspective, and light to pinpoint intersections between mental exaggeration and lost accuracies. Through this process, I question the viability of collective experiences, counteract future states of disembodiment, and retreat into past states of being.

Born in Lakeland, Florida, I attended the University of Florida in 2024 before moving to Greensboro, North Carolina to pursue an MFA in studio art at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

Learn more about Sammi: IG @scr4mmi