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Empathic Exchange, Yu-Jung Kim
Empathic Exchange, Yu-Jung Kim
Masters Theses
My work explores the empathy existing between humans and animals. It is possible for humans and animals commune empathically by staring at one another. With empathy, human and animal connection can be built; comfort and healing can be found through this form of exchange. Non-verbal communication with animals may not often be thought about seriously. I aim to share the experience of empathy, comfort and power of healing through communication with animals I have felt, and to awake people with similar experiences in their memory through my works.
As a child, I thought I could not be truly understood by …
Memory: Tangible Decay & Growth, Rebecca J. Buglio
Memory: Tangible Decay & Growth, Rebecca J. Buglio
Masters Theses
What if the objects we had as children grew up with us and showed the decay, alterations, and new growth that occurred to us?
Natural sciences focus, in part, on the endless cycle of growth and decay. Through researching this topic, the question of current versus past arose to question how the mind evolves with age. As a ceramic artist, clay offers a memory through touch by taking the shape and form the creator wills it to have while still able to have movement and force of its own through the molecular makeup and processes it goes through in firings. …