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A Wheel Inside A Wheel, Elizabeth Storm
A Wheel Inside A Wheel, Elizabeth Storm
Art and Design Theses
Getting lost in nature, I can sense the unfixity of its countless forms and processes. Recurring patterns at micro and macro scale arise from creative and destructive forces in space and time; reality appears simultaneously constant and impermanent. My thesis work, a wheel inside a wheel, explores the self in relation to contemporary conceptions of reality. I look at static and dynamic representations of stripped-down patterns modeled from nature, like circular bursts, splintering branches, or the meander of a wave. The action-based works on paper and cloth leverage invisible forces and signal permanency and physical embodiment, deepened through an …
Sky Garden Graduate Student Housing, Maria Paula Saavedra Rios
Sky Garden Graduate Student Housing, Maria Paula Saavedra Rios
Art and Design Theses
This thesis presents an on-campus graduate student housing project that aims to revitalize its Downtown Atlanta neighborhood, contribute to Georgia State University’s academic goals and campus development plans, and address aspects of the housing problem that GSU’s graduate students currently face in Atlanta, Georgia. The literature review and data collected from the graduate student survey informed the design process by understanding the urban context history and identifying graduate students’ needs and preferences. The project aims to reposition a vacant office building located on-campus and convert it into student housing serving an age-diverse population offering common areas that contribute to students’ …
Wax And Mortality: A Transhistorical Study On Wax In Artistic Depictions Of Death, Mary Kirkpatrick
Wax And Mortality: A Transhistorical Study On Wax In Artistic Depictions Of Death, Mary Kirkpatrick
Art and Design Theses
This essay is an exploration of the medium of beeswax throughout Western art history from antiquity to the Baroque period that explores how it has consistently been used to illustrate death, decay, and violence. Examples range from funerary effigies to magical poppets to anatomical models, each displaying how the substance of wax is inherently tied to corporeality and mortality. Each example is chosen to demonstrate how either the visual appearance or the tactile properties of wax influence its use in corporeal sculpture, culminating in the work of Gaetano Giulio Zumbo to illustrate a union of the two.
Do You Remember The Sun...?, Travis Dodd
Do You Remember The Sun...?, Travis Dodd
Art and Design Theses
Do you remember the sun…? is an interdisciplinary installation that explores gold’s function as a utilitarian material within technology. Once reserved for the Gods, gold can now be found within the circuitry of cutting-edge space exploration technology or plated against the surface of mundane consumer electronics. Gold’s utilitarian shift away from adornment and capital began in the 1970s when digital technology first entered the home. First-generation personal computers and video game systems, both latent with gold, allowed access to new interactive virtual worlds that would evolve into technologies that currently dominate culture and society. The imagery of Do You Remember …