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Kavana: Photography, Jewish Storytelling, And Memory, Hannah Altman Jan 2020

Kavana: Photography, Jewish Storytelling, And Memory, Hannah Altman

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Jewish thought suggests that the memory of an action is as primary as the action itself. This is to say that when my hand is wounded, I remember other hands. I trace ache back to other aches - when my mother grabbed my wrist pulling me across the intersection, when my great-grandmother’s fingers went numb on the ship headed towards Cuba fleeing the Nazis, when Miriam’s palms enduringly poured water for the Hebrews throughout their desert journey - this is how the Jew is able to fathom an ache. Because no physical space is a given for the Jewish diaspora, …


Insert Title, R. Abram Deslauriers May 2014

Insert Title, R. Abram Deslauriers

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It is a gestural sensibility forever suspended in the material as it cools. With each movement to and fro, I become fully immersed and given over to the activity of glassworking, where the simplest impressions whisper of fantastic melodies. I remain open to it: conducting a collision: a symphony of riffs, vamps and arpeggios. Constructing the chorus in disjunctive phases as if it forms out of its own directive. The polyphonic rhythm of decisions converge into a new composition, now completely obscured from the intro—existing in reference only to itself and you


Underlying Conditions, Mariam Eqbal May 2013

Underlying Conditions, Mariam Eqbal

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The following is a collection of lines, curves, and dots on a plane, representing words fashioned to communicate my ideas about relationships between the thing and the nothing. This thesis is like a map, a contour drawing, an assortment of lines, speaking my thoughts about things in relation to space and time. As something moving, developing into another thing, as a thing sentient, I am viewing, performing, and processing incremental acts. I am looking at water and I can see my reflection break into a thousand pieces. It is like watching time.


Day Folder, Raewyn Martyn Apr 2013

Day Folder, Raewyn Martyn

Theses and Dissertations

Provisional or unfinished images, forms and actions can sustain their status by continuing to change. This can resist programmed experience of their state, and shift their relationship as images within time. The sub-aesthetics of the unfinished and entropic can alter our understanding of where and how images are formed and located within time. My paintings each exist within their own emergent systems of time, structure and productive disorder. This thesis discusses these ideas in relation to DAY FOLDER and other work made during my MFA studies.


Reckless Hope, Jesse Potts May 2012

Reckless Hope, Jesse Potts

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This thesis is an approximation of several years spent in the studio. It represents an equitable exercise of memory and speculation.


Mapping The Distant, Llorens Ana Esteve Apr 2011

Mapping The Distant, Llorens Ana Esteve

Theses and Dissertations

This Thesis presents several approaches through art making to deal with light and space and other things, and the relations that their interaction may generate


Constructs: Truth, Lies, And Humanity, Nathan Hansen Apr 2010

Constructs: Truth, Lies, And Humanity, Nathan Hansen

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a discussion of my ideas, struggles and outcomes experienced during the making of my two bodies of work, Devices and Relics. These two bodies of work explore fleeting moments, the intrinsic values of labor and imagination with reference to sedentary living and labor in contemporary American society.