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[Nos]Otros, Lucia Monge
[Nos]Otros, Lucia Monge
Masters Theses
Environmental issues are part of our daily conversations but not as common in our everyday considerations. The times call on us to approach things differently. We must find alternative ways to relate to each other and to understand the real issues of our ecology. We cannot perceive the whole through our accustomed senses, so we must open and expand our perception. Art offers that possibility, allowing for points of contact across distance while physically representing that space in between.
How do we relate to other living beings around us, determine what is living, and decide who is part of our …
A Slight Hysterical Tendency, Allison Baker
A Slight Hysterical Tendency, Allison Baker
Masters Theses
Sexuality, sculpture, and sadness as sites of female subversion.
A woman's internalized suffering and sadness is deployed as an act of resistance. Women have a long lineage of historically tragic female figures, particularly authors and artists that disrupt the status quo by relishing and thriving and they wallow in their sorrow. Women's collective and overwhelming sadness is both a singular and unified protest against cultural and social systems of oppression. Sad girls are bad girls.