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The Mockingbird, Etsu Department Of Art And Design, Etsu Department Of English

The Mockingbird

Tamara Baxter [July Sun; Doomsday Monday at Pee Wee's Hamburger Emporium]; Emily Carmichael [View (Frost-on- Windowpanes); Boys of Summer]; Isaac Denton [Grandfather as Cheshire Cat]; John Hilton [Actual Size May Vary; I Once Was Lost]; Natasha Jones [Don't Tell Me I'm Still Young]; Miwako Kato [Untitled Photograph]; April Massey [Blind Date]; Sylvia Musgrove [Like Trees Walking]; Laurie Relleva [Wysteria; Fortune Kookie]; Jon Sells [Rocky Cliff]; Melissa K. Stallard [Two Untitled Photographs]; Pam Tabor [memory of shiloh trees; The Proving Ground]; Allan Trently [Spirits in the Spruces]; Susan Woody [Breast; Memphis]

Textuaries, Patricia Millar Boas

Dissertations and Theses

The paintings, sculpture and digital prints presented for this thesis explore language as a field where sense and non-sense coexist With my focus on the activity of deciphering, both literally and metaphorically, I have examined the play between word as image and image as word. What poetry lies embedded in the strange physicality of familiar graphic marks? What is the pleasure we find, as the poet Robert Pinsky suggests, in language only partly understood?

Following the lead of the Surrealists, who used the camera to investigate the paradoxical notion of reality as a sign, I amassed a collection of newspaper …

Words & Images 2000, University Of Southern Maine

Words and Images

Words and Images is an annual arts and literature publication distributed by the University of Southern Maine.

Editor: Jeanette D'Entremont

Art Editor: Allisson Bouchard

Literary Editor: Sybil Ridge