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ANAMNESIS
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
The beauty of nature and the experience of awe that it evokes can serve to remind us of our place in the world. This thesis examines that beauty, love and loss, remembering, and finding solace through reflections of the ...
Identity Informed Then Performed
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
The concept of identity is constructed by societal means, and for the individual, it may be interpreted in many ways. Identity can be recognized by external means such as the clothes a person chooses to wear, but it can ...
Suspension of Disbelief
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
This thesis is an invitation to participate in the viewership and operation of fictional narratives. The making of this work is an attempt to understand the dichotomy of enjoying the trick and knowing its method. In ...
Cultural Mansters
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
This document is written in support of the thesis exhibition, Cultural Mansters, which represents and supports the idea of using satire and non-threatening imagery as tools to create a discourse on sociopolitical topics. ...
Fragile: Handle with Care
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
Memory has always been dearly held in my family, and easily lost. I watched as my loved ones surrounded themselves with objects that acted as physical anchors to the full lives they had lived, the places they had been, and ...
An Explanation of Sympathetic Magic
(East Carolina University, 2017-04-27)
These supernatural stories come to life from my research as new photographs appropriated from my family albums and vernacular images to create visual folklore about the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The images ...
Sequential/Consequential
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
"Sequential/Consequential" refers to my material-based, process-oriented approach to creating ceramic sculptures. A guiding principle of my thesis activities is centered around expressing temporal accumulation of the art ...
Choice Based Art in the Middle School Classroom
(East Carolina University, 2017-08-21)
The purpose of this paper is to examine the engagement of students when they are presented choices in the art classroom. This method follows the vision of Maria Montessori who created a boundary choice program promoting ...
Fracture: Representing Identity
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-27)
This document provides written support for the thesis exhibition, Fracture: Representing Identity. The body of work presented in the exhibition seeks to provide more accurate images of people, counter to the limiting ...
Vestige
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-27)
Our memories are, in essence, the summation of who we are. With age, our memory starts to slip away. The disintegrating effect of time is slowly eroding our stored experiences. This document explores the means and methods ...