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Fox And Hare, Isobel Debenham

The Mercury

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Girl And Cat, Sia Harrison

The Mercury

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Ode To Pennsylvania, Lizzy Kramer

The Mercury

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No Funny Business, Luca Espana

The Mercury

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Thumbs Up, Luca Espana

The Mercury

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Over Yonder, Luca Espana

The Mercury

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Untitled, Jade Gladue

The Mercury

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Condolences, Alice L. Van Etten

The Mercury

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Follies, Sia Harrison

The Mercury

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Grief, Taylor G. Degennaro

The Mercury

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To: [Redacted], Leah R. Nath

The Mercury

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Love Letter To Our Incoherence, Kieran Caves

The Mercury

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Airplane, Georgia Kirkendall

The Mercury

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Edmund Of Gloucester, Alexander E. Hanley

The Mercury

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Sylvia And Me, Leah R. Nath

The Mercury

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From A Voice In An Etruscan Tomb, Erin Scanga

The Mercury

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Happy Nineteenth Birthday, Kenzie Smith

The Mercury

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Finding Repetition, Kieran Caves

The Mercury

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Inheritance, Omer Shamil

The Mercury

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Ovis Sequitur, Alexander E. Hanley

The Mercury

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The Death Of Reason, Ella Beam

The Mercury

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What's Left Unseen, Katherine C. Cornet

The Mercury

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'Toona Town, Taylor G. Degennaro

The Mercury

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The Silent Thread, Omer Shamil

The Mercury

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Resonance, Jess D. Skyleson

Masters Theses

Resonance is a digital media installation intended to facilitate a deeper understanding of inter-connection within and between ourselves and others, and to depict how our voices live both within and beyond us. The exhibit is divided into two intertwining halves:

Externally, the piece involves creative communication between people, art mediums, and life experiences. This aspect includes the contributions of thirty patients, doctors, and caregivers who responded to one another’s artwork in a series of workshops led by the artist. Starting with the creative writing of patients, this was provided to a group of unrelated medical providers, who responded with visual …

The Ruminating Shell : A Reparative Experiment In Dialogic Writing And Sensory Resonance, Crystal Jiayin Ren

Masters Theses

This thesis unfolds as a first-person memoir, an incomplete record of remembered dialogues, and a structural experiment that aims to get closer to what I perceive as emotional and philosophical truth. Prompted by a conversation with my father-in-law, writer and thinker Shen Hao, I began to reflect on how informal, everyday exchanges with mentors, family, and friends have continually shaped how I translate internal echoes—ruminations, confusions, emotional residues—into writing, spatial, material, and experience.

Rather than adhering to the conventions of academic analysis or formal documentation, I adopt a dialogic form—one rooted in memory, shaped by subjectivity, and open to contradiction. …

How To Walk On Water: Living Through The Absurd, Esther Du

Masters Theses

Set in a speculative world submerged by water, this thesis constructs a fragmented, nonlinear narrative that reflects on survival, memory, and displacement in the aftermath of catastrophe. Through three interwoven chapters—The Outcast, The Researcher, and The World—the project explores the emotional and psychological landscapes of individuals navigating a post-apocalyptic existence where the past is irretrievable and the future uncertain. Using an interdisciplinary form of visual storytelling, writing, and sound, the work draws from personal experience and collective trauma to examine how people reconstruct identity and meaning after loss. Rather than offering a definitive answer to existential …

The Navel Of The Dream, Ella C. Baum

Masters Theses

The images in The Navel of the Dream evoke a state of groundlessness. In this body of work, photographs act as thresholds between what is seen and what is felt, between daydreams and nightmares, and memories and myths. The camera is used as a means to engage with feelings of loss, and reenact the mythos of childhood, as well as the deep waters of the subconscious.

Created in Southern Sweden between 2022 and 2025, these photographs investigate the fallow winter landscape, the liminal space of deep, dark Scandinavian nights and the transformative qualities of ice, snow and …

The Dialectic Of Airless Space, Ophelia Arc

Masters Theses

The Dialectic of Airless Space is a cumulative, cross-disciplinary research project that explores ‘airless space’ as a somatic and psychological condition shaped by institutional environments. Unfolding over time through five interrelated books, the project weaves together writing, ephemera, textile sculpture, and drawing to archive the invisible architectures of bodily and mental experience.

Embodied Archives, Emerging Futures, Xuân-Lam Nguyen

Masters Theses

Fifty years after the end of the U.S.–Vietnam War, this thesis reflects on the entangled relationship between the two nations, inspiring hope while challenging dominant representations of trauma and tragedy. Drawing from autobiography, family history, folk art traditions, colonial photographs, hierarchies within art history, archives of student activism, and key geopolitical events, the work explores the complex intersections of queer identity and glitchy historical narratives. Combining research-based inquiry with time- and labor-intensive processes, it reimagines historical materials to construct alternate possibilities for the future.