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Cosmic Whatever, Cement Gardens, Luminous Shade, Winifred Vaughan
Cosmic Whatever, Cement Gardens, Luminous Shade, Winifred Vaughan
Masters Theses
My work is an assemblage of disciplines, reductive processes, and accumulated materials interpreted with a painterly quality. Slipping away faster than we can grasp, the unrelenting forces of time propel us forward. Memory fragments our chronologies, transforming our existence into a collaged fabric. Layered transparencies allow the three chapters of this thesis, Cosmic Whatever, Cement Gardens and Luminous Shade, to bleed into each other turning them into composed cycles. These unlikely combinations permit freedom to experience a narrative that is both vast and intimate.
Reimagining The Narrative: A Contemporary Creative Collection Of Interracial Perspective, Holly Jefferies
Reimagining The Narrative: A Contemporary Creative Collection Of Interracial Perspective, Holly Jefferies
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
This essay offers a critical analysis of my creative thesis, Reimagining the Narrative: A Contemporary Creative Collection of Interracial Perspective, which consists of five fabric art scrolls, illustrating contemporary narrative views about interracial relations. I present such information to demonstrate the need to retell history from a visual interracial perspective, so that it might be seen through a new lens. In this critical essay, I argue that while historical context and documentation records history and provides insight into historical narratives, contemporary views within writing and art persist in their capacity to not only offer new points of view, but also …