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Thesis Inquiry & Process: Something About Reality, Blayke Mackenzie Morrow
Thesis Inquiry & Process: Something About Reality, Blayke Mackenzie Morrow
Theses
This thesis documents the employment of a system of Process and Inquiry as it serves as a structural foundation for an investigation of the manner in which Reality is represented in visual portraiture. Through a vigorous exploration of the concept of Reality and its singular nature, it is hypothesized that intrinsically unique experiences could potentially be communicated through the perceptive abilities of the emotional quotient. The effects of media, timing, complexity, abstraction, and authenticity are examined for their effect on the apparent clarity of concepts transmitted in this manner. The inquiry ultimately manifests in the daily creation of self-portraiture, as …
Perceptions And Realities: Contemporary Impressions Of Formative And Temporal Experiences, Holly Lee Brewer
Perceptions And Realities: Contemporary Impressions Of Formative And Temporal Experiences, Holly Lee Brewer
Theses
This thesis describes contemporary, non-traditional printmaking processes aimed at creating a metaphor for our perceptions of time and how the passage of time affects us both internally and externally in our attempt at constructing our self-identity. The language of this metaphor adopts the internal patterns of tree burls and altered pieces of manufactured wood in communicating the transience of time and mutability of memory. Texture is highlighted in many of the pieces for the exhibition, not only with that of irregular wood grain, but also in the series with skin-like handmade flax paper. In order to demonstrate how memory is …
Gwunder, Martin Gasser
Gwunder, Martin Gasser
Theses
This is the written report of a thesis project which was done in the form of a book. This book was produced as a dummy consisting of fifty-five double pages (spreads). The book was planned and executed in all details and it is ready to be printed. The visual part includes a number of photo-sequences: seventy-seven black and white photographs and five postcards. Within these series of images are sequences of seven Swiss poems, seven exerpts from American TV commercials, seven Malay proverbs, seven quotations from the MFA Handbook, passages from seven books dealing with different concepts of photography and …
Reflections, Tana Kellner
Flat Monumentality, Theodora Cichy
Natural Forms In Abstract Painting, Teresa Patti
The Season Of Man, Karl Schantz