Digital Commons Network^™

America(N), Stefanie J. Liles-Ray

Art and Design Theses

AMERICA(N) is the exploration of entities that compose my life as an American artist that grew up in a middle-class suburban environment, and the idea of America which encompasses the great American Dream. This existential examination consists of the collecting, documenting and categorizing of information, including photographs of the houses I lived in, portraits of the dogs I have owned, as well as select lists and correspondences from the last few years. Through the accumulation of these items, I seek to analyze and derive meaning and connections amongst all of these things, which exist simultaneously with one another within a …