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A Single Particle Among Billions: Yayoi Kusama And The Power Of The Minute, Isabelle Martin
A Single Particle Among Billions: Yayoi Kusama And The Power Of The Minute, Isabelle Martin
Oswald Research and Creativity Competition
Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has developed her career through the continued use of the infinitely repeated polka-dot motif, an element that has not only persisted throughout the entirety of her work, but has also become a fundamental aspect of her self-presentation. Kusama has long suffered from a mental affliction called cenesthopathy, which results in intense hallucinations and anxiety attacks. Her use of the polka dot is not only a way for her to visualize her hallucinations, but also an example of the physical commitment (identified by Kusama as self-obliteration) she has to her work—her repeated application of small motifs …
Ichigo, Ichie, Meredith Matia
Ichigo, Ichie, Meredith Matia
Oswald Research and Creativity Competition
This body of work explores how the mundane can provoke a sense of gratefulness for what is already around us. In researching the Japanese Tea Ceremony, as well as contemporary artists such as Jen Mann, David Hockey, Wayne Thiebaud, and artists from the Dutch Golden Age, this series of paintings is seeking to anchor these works in relation to these on going dialogs.
In this series of paintings titled ‘Ichigo, Ichie’ translates to “one time, one meeting” which represents one of the philosophies of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. ‘Chanoyu’ is the art of everyday life and …
The Semantic Nature Of Tense Ambiguity: Resolving Tense And Aspect In Japanese Phrasal Constructions, Annabelle T. Bruno
The Semantic Nature Of Tense Ambiguity: Resolving Tense And Aspect In Japanese Phrasal Constructions, Annabelle T. Bruno
Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics
The nature of tense in classical Japanese is vague and uncertain, sometimes appearing to be interpretable by combinations of particular verbs with specific verbal auxiliaries and sometimes appearing to be absent altogether. The present study introduces a series of these so-called tense-bearing auxiliaries in classical Japanese while attempting to show that their use can be ambiguous based on the contexts in which they appear. The notions of context driven semantic formalism are explored as a possible means to derive truth from these utterances that seem otherwise tenseless when taken out of context. To accomplish this, time and tense are given …