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Father Figures, Chris Regner
Father Figures, Chris Regner
Masters Theses
I work serially, using autobiography as a jumping-off point for satire, humiliation, and explorations of the grotesque. My paintings tackle a variety of topics, including religious and cultish indoctrination, the use of technology and its effect on societal discourse, and stereotypical notions of masculinity that find their way into every subject I explore. Using my personal experiences as a foundation, my paintings have questioned archetypes found within these themes, all the while challenging my own values and beliefs. I position myself as an anti-proselytizer, complicating the easy answer and presenting morally questionable individuals with the intent of causing contradictory interpretations …
Wrung From Grave Architectures, Megan Solis
Wrung From Grave Architectures, Megan Solis
Masters Theses
Found or imagined findings... notes, diary entries, texts, prayers and poems
Disasters are avenues to gain intimacy glory is the constant
What is the skeleton made of, if not to be filled with meat to be piled and molded to bring back life.
pain and memory to be grave architectures, the stuctures that fall,
a plea for humanity: “Am I just a phantom waiting to be ripped from shady ground?”
desperate melancholy we realize that she is
I am
you are
tragic.
guilt to perform, to retraumatize is a punishment and is masochistic. to violently reenact, like haunted ghosts, to …
Mis Jarrones, Marco Sebastián Arroyo Hoebens
Mis Jarrones, Marco Sebastián Arroyo Hoebens
Masters Theses
This thesis offers an insight into the complex relationship between identity, memory and the creative process. A Q&A follows, designed to deepen the understanding of the self in different situations, places, cultures and design objects.
Apparently, memory has a leading role in triggering creative processes and this has forced me to do further research on my own past and on the objects that my memory retains. In the end, this “research on the self” has produced an interesting view on this particular creative process of designing.
Mais Fica : More For Me, Gabrielle Marie Ferreira
Mais Fica : More For Me, Gabrielle Marie Ferreira
Masters Theses
This book is as much a part of my thesis as the fabrics and patterns themselves, stitched together from moments and memories. You may take these stories with you, but those hidden moments between my words will always remain for me and me alone. No matter how many people take these stories with them, still mais fica.
Circle, Loops, Straps, Tracks, Towels, Laura Thatcher
Circle, Loops, Straps, Tracks, Towels, Laura Thatcher
Masters Theses
When running, thoughts come and go and disappear otten before I can solidify them. I can only really hang onto a few but it's liberating because it allows my mind to leap from one thing to the next by way of lucidity. This brings an experience of felt time or the sensation of time passing. I can slide rhythmically from the haptic to the elusive while passing quickly through places and ambiences.
Tightrope Walking On The Red Lines, Arghavan Khosravi
Tightrope Walking On The Red Lines, Arghavan Khosravi
Masters Theses
My work is deeply connected to my own personal experience of the culture and politics of my homeland of Iran. I was born and raised in Iran in a nonreligious family. I experienced the first decade after the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a child. The hardliners had taken power, society suffered tremendous suppression, and Iran was at war with Iraq. My memories are filled with so many occasions in which the dominance of the oppressive regime affected my daily life, from being forced to wear a headscarf in elementary school, to being required to pray and recite the Quran at …
The Contested Landscapes Of Mnemosyne : Constructing Maps Of Memory, Valeria Rachel Herrera
The Contested Landscapes Of Mnemosyne : Constructing Maps Of Memory, Valeria Rachel Herrera
Masters Theses
This is an unbound portfolio UV printed on plexiglass containing fragments and scenes from my master’s thesis The Contested Landscapes of Mnemosyne - Constructing Maps of Memory.
I Am Come Back To You, Eleanor Tomlinson
I Am Come Back To You, Eleanor Tomlinson
Masters Theses
Through various forays into psychological science and affect theory, this work attempts to understand how quick and simple commodities might coalesce into a complex portrait of individual and collective memory.
Continuum Of Significance, Diane Lee
Continuum Of Significance, Diane Lee
Masters Theses
At the intersection of multiple simultaneous timelines, Continuum of Significance is a graphic design practice that acknowledges time and meaning as fluid, shifting variables. By challenging notions of obsolescence and assumed valuations, the work brings forward stories and experiences that might otherwise go unnoticed, or quickly fade from memory.
This body of work explores various attempts at reconciliation, vacillating between faster modes of production, and a practice deeply anchored and concerned with history, research, iteration, and contemplation. Materials gleaned from the mundane: the expired historic archive, and the vivid digital cache, are recomposed to invoke a slow read in our …