Root Canals,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
The Day My Dad Was A Soprano,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
¿Por Qué Español?,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
There Are Two Girls Playing Inside The Hagia Sofia,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
There Are Two Girls Playing Inside The Hagia Sofia, Aydin Gulle
Intertidal
No abstract provided.
A Través Del Espejo,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
The Mourning After Christmas,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Hear Everything,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Seafood,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
I Am A Pressure That Builds,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
A Letter To My Mom,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Living Narrative,
2026
University of Massachusetts Boston
Living Narrative, Logan W. Cody
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
This unconventional synthesis project uses the frameworks of communication studies and critical theory to explore questions of subjectification and identity. This paper uses a research-based approach to discussing my original piece of art known as autofiction. Simultaneously, this paper tries to use the techniques of art to communicate its meanings to you. I have chosen this style of writing for my research paper precisely because my research (and creative work) deals with narrative, identity, and ideas which cannot be said in words; ideas which have been made impossible to communicate through the official, traditional channels. To that end, in order …
Draw To Breathe,
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
Draw To Breathe, Ranran Ma
Masters Theses
This thesis explores visual expression in drawing as an intuitive mode of thinking suited to everyday life—a form of expression that runs parallel to language and surpasses it.
The project begins with a daily Post-it note drawing practice. These drawings often emerge before conscious understanding, subsequently accompanied by brief text, allowing image and word to resonate through emotion and intuition. Through the use of small-scale, portable, low-pressure materials, and with immediacy and intuitive freedom as the foundation of making, a visual language system grounded in the self develops. Through this sustained practice, I developed an instruction-based card system titled Draw …
Where Each Step Lands: Reconnecting And Reparenting Through Visual Narrative,
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
Where Each Step Lands: Reconnecting And Reparenting Through Visual Narrative, Skye Wang
Masters Theses
This research begins with lived experiences of dissociation and a persistent sense of disconnection between body and consciousness. It explores the potential of visual narrative as an embodied practice. Through daily walking and sketching, bodily sensations are translated into visual language through a synesthetic process, forming the foundation for a picture book as the central outcome of this project.
The picture book adopts the perspective of a jumping spider positioned beneath a five-year-old girl’s shoe, creating a shifting, downward-facing viewpoint. The spider functions as a viewing position, while the girl represents the inner child. The narrative is constructed around the …
An Anxious Artist's Guide To Magic,
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
An Anxious Artist's Guide To Magic, Mot Tuman
Masters Theses
Illustration’s essence is using some type of media to tell a story. This could be anything from sculpture, watercolor, even just text alone. Beyond its medium, I have been thinking for a while of illustration and storytelling as a type of illusory magic. Magic, according to the Oxford language dictionary as being "The power of using supernatural or other unseen forces to apparently influence events or human behaviour." It gives us the power to reach inside the mind and heart of a person and change their emotional and mental state. It's the ability to create a world and have others …
Rainy Day Books,
2026
Fort Hays State University
Rainy Day Books, Katy Harris
Lines from the Middle of Nowhere
Rowan finds himself wandering the streets on his brother's death anniversary. He stumbles upon a used book store that provides an escape from the memories bubbling up.
Church Of Unity And Other Short Stories,
2026
Pittsburg State University
Church Of Unity And Other Short Stories, Ashton C. Steele-Thomas
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
For my thesis, I wrote stories that focused on many of the emotions that often follow hand in hand with exploring trauma—Grief, disappointment, anger, vulnerability, and self-realization. I’ve learned from my own experiences, and that of others, that it is often easier to cope with these emotions and experience them if they are told through an otherworldly lens. Sometimes the emotions are too big to feel natural, so we look to the supernatural or darker sides of reality to cope. This is what I hoped to explore.
In “Church of Unity,” the ghost of a young boy attempts to protect …
Fire At The End Of The World,
2026
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Combat Fatigue,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Language Barrier,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Winesburg,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
