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Dut Zie, Jian Liang

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Hurt, Vivian Rachelle

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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In Training, Tim Fish

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Starting From Mushrooms, Shuwen He

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Failed Study After Francis Bacon, Andras Gerevich

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Eternal Blue, Matthew Garrell

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Morning Tea, Eric Fantauzzi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Terrorist Coffee, Michael Beahan

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Something Ancient, Something Blue, Erin Bennett

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Post Blast, George Byford

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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A Flood Of Memories, Emmett Frank

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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The Outsiders, Eric Fantauzzi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Reflections On Mals And Learning To Write, Kathy Fortin

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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You Want Me In Brown, Alberto Ruiz

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Entities: A Field Of Imaginary Games, Thrasyvoulos Ioannis Kalaitzidis

LSU Master's Theses

With this body of work, I am looking for visual symbols that help communicate unuttered meanings through storytelling and stimulate an affectual response to the viewer. This exploration is presented in two different forms: a surreal sculptural installation and a board game. The installation consists of large-scale sculptures made from light and soft materials (polyurethane foam, plastic waste, paper) that are available to move inside the gallery, while the board game is presented as a set of 3D prints with instructions on how the participants can play it. The materials used in the installation suggest a way to transform waste …

Don’T Be Like Me: A Letter To My Daughters, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

It is often stated that parenting is "the toughest job you'll ever love." And it certainly doesn't come with an instruction manual. However, though we will falter, because of our love for our children, most of us learn a lot on the journey. This growth helps us to develop the skills and understanding needed, as parents, to be able to effectively guide, support, and nurture our children. Such knowledge, though beneficial for all families, is critical within neurodiverse households.

So what do you do when you just don't have it? What do you do when you have as much (if …

My Learning Circles, Archana Kadam

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This poem is written from the perspective of an autistic child who loves mathematical concepts. The poem attempts to explain his or her understanding of rules of social thinking.

A Walmart With No Televisions, Samuel A. Bickford

LSU Master's Theses

A Walmart with No Televisions is a deconstructed novel about the perils and heartbreak of adolescent drug addiction. What begins as a fad, a social affectation, quickly becomes a guiding light. The novel illustrates hope as a potentiality, and escape from oneself as something always in question. Happiness is uncertain, but the experience is not.

'My Name Is Peaches': Black Women's Affect In The Blues Biomyth, Taylor C. Scott

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

For this project, I am interested in the study of nuanced self-representations of Black rage that appear within African American literary traditions, specifically the blues aesthetic, wherein artists narrativize a wide spectrum of intelligent and specific emotion--not just melancholy. Blues narratives in which Black people self-represent are in direct opposition to flattened narratives of certain affective modes such as anger as a useless, backwards, pathologized, and flat feeling that appear within dominant U.S. and global iconographies. What I see in the blues aesthetic is the capacity for a multichromatic approach to studying rage and Black authorship in America. By using …

A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak

MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture

This essay explores the realms of special places, the literary genre of fantasy, narrative, and comics. These topics are traversed alongside subjects of adolescence and the creation of stories for middle-grade readers. Framed with personal stories, as well as peaks into my process, I investigate these subjects through the lens of my own life and work, specifically my thesis project, a comic for middle-grade readers titled Beyond the Castle Walls. Beginning with adolescence in association with special places, I consider the work of developmental psychologists David Sobel and Edith Cobb as they pin-point the role of secret forts, nature, …

Follow The Shimmer, Meghan Bradbury

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

Follow the Shimmer is a creative thesis collection of poems and songs that explore the depths of trauma, love, and healing. Told through the lens of fairy tale and fantasy, it is a story of grief and hope. Some of the tales are familiar, others are strange and abstract. Fables and nursery rhymes are remixed by the hands of a daughter who wishes for her deceased mother's touch. Archetypes and mythology are scrambled through the kaleidoscopic eyes of a woman who survives the violence of a patriarchal society. The world becomes a landscape of dangerous yet magical realms to discover; …

Salvage, Stefania Gomez

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

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Meet Me In The Middle Ages: Engaging With Fantasy, Reality, And Collaborative World-Building, Amanda Greene

MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture

This critical essay accompanies and describes my thesis project, Medievalia Miscellany, a magazine for middle-grade readers which explores the world of medieval fantasy through art, comics, stories, and activities. Throughout the essay, I use my own term “archaeological upcycling” to discuss and explore a variety of relationships between ideas of parts and a whole. I then use it to characterize the way stories are created out of many different parts and how these parts help a reader to relate to both the world of the story and the world in which they live. I describe the genre of medieval fantasy …

The Shine Of A Rainbow, Pamela M. Mignacca

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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A Dusk Sky, Rachel A. Taylor

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Home, Zoe Henry

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Reflections On Loss, Bianca M. Oliveira

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Verdant Vermont, Samantha A. Langmaack

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Purple Flowers, Julie Saint Fleur

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Louisiana Still Life, Nicholas Waguespack

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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