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A Renaissance: The Absurd Retelling Of Mostly True Events, Erica R. Hitzman
A Renaissance: The Absurd Retelling Of Mostly True Events, Erica R. Hitzman
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Throughout the following you will be taken on a fantastical retelling of the exhibition A Renaissance, and some of what lead up to it. Through the eyes of various shifting perspectives you will explore the relationships between the artist, her art, and the viewer in the hopes of unveiling how the work plays into feminist theory, its place in the Zeitgeist, and the motivations behind it. Each perspective is formatted differently, to visually mirror the shift in perspective. Presented in the first person and aligned to the right, the account of the artist discusses the process, emotion, and inspiration behind …
What Comes After Longing, Richard Zachary Williams
What Comes After Longing, Richard Zachary Williams
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
What Comes After Longing is a collection of artifacts from my research exploring the desires and haunting motivations of the human experience. Is all life longing for something, some place, somebody, some time? That is the question I pose.
What is the purpose of longing? Is it meaningless to long for something if you’re longing for something that’s not real? We filter our experience of the world through this longing. Longing is the filter through which we survive, and my research and work explores whether we can get past this, or whether all life is a series of these longings. …