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From Me To You, Isabel Lee
From Me To You, Isabel Lee
AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
As an artist, my work has allowed me to produce as a multidisciplinary thinker, maker, and communicator. Beyond the physicality of medium, much of my desire to make my work manifests in the nuances of human relationships and genuine experiences that I seek and recall in my own life. My most lasting work meanders around the elements of unspoken communication, intimate gestures, and quixotic quests.
Through performative sculpture, I pursue thinking and making through nontraditional materials, utilizing some form of human interaction in the process. Exploring my curiosity for relational and performative art, I’m interested in works that are exist …
American Girls, Elizabeth Farschon
American Girls, Elizabeth Farschon
AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
These four pieces explore different aspects of American life through the eyes of female characters. Best in Show, Meadows, and Dads and Dancers each capture childhood moments where being a girl really counts, whether for better or for worse. While the poems tell specific stories, the questions and realizations are common for many girls growing up in America. How do we teach girls about their bodies and worth through the ways we allow men, especially their fathers, to interact with them? How are gender roles established even in childhood playtime?
The fourth poem, Venus, contrasts the first …
Body Image Perception: Adolescent Boys And Avatar Depiction In Video Games, Usha Raman
Body Image Perception: Adolescent Boys And Avatar Depiction In Video Games, Usha Raman
AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
Research on mass media’s impact on body image has mostly been focused on females thus far. Of the little research that has been done on male body image, most of it has been focused on adult males, and therefore the effect of mass media on adolescent boys’ body image is still a relatively primitive field of knowledge. Through comparing the exposure of adolescent boys to muscular avatars in popular video games, a source of mass media that a majority of adolescent boys are exposed to, and relating it to research done on the effects of frequent ideal image exposure through …