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Making The Invisible Visible: Mapping Chronic Pain Through Art, Caroline Young Jan 2022

Making The Invisible Visible: Mapping Chronic Pain Through Art, Caroline Young

Scripps Senior Theses

This Studio Art thesis explores how I use my art practice as a chronic pain healing process. It draws on the fundamentals of the neuroscience behind pain and the implications of this science for people with chronic pain. People with chronic pain often turn to alternative healing techniques in their search for relief; my own alternative healing approach comes from my art practice of “pain mapping."

The artistic healing process that I have developed takes inspiration from chronically ill artists such as Frida Kahlo and Anna Cowley Ford. The artistic mapping of my pain that I have developed primarily uses …


Chaos Coordinate System, Shuai Xu Nov 2021

Chaos Coordinate System, Shuai Xu

CGU MFA Theses

我目前的作品聚焦于看不见的世界,我的很多灵感都来自于我的梦想。我对人类与宇宙的关系感兴趣,尤其是当它在地球上发生时,个人与自然之间的关系。我希望在向外扩展的同时更深入地探索我的内部世界,以参与社会和超越。

My current works focus on the invisible world, and much of my inspiration comes from my dreams. I am interested in humanity's relationship to the cosmos, particularly as it plays out here on Earth, in the relationship between individuals and nature. I hope to explore my interior world more deeply while expanding outward, to engage society and beyond.