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His Crossing
In memory, the family history, the events leading up to, and the aftermath looped in on themselves, like a spiroscope continuum. His suicide was the beginning, but also the middle, and the end. As one who would witness ... -
EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN
Identity is both the self-image and the social construct that guides our behavior. We see ourselves through the concepts others have of us and the groups we belong to, and perform identities under the impact of the surrounding ... -
Comorbidity
ABSTRACT This thesis document analyses and contextualizes my solo thesis exhibition, Comorbidity, through providing photo documentation of the work, a reflection on personal experiences, social phenomena, contemporary art, ... -
Unconscented Visibility
This paper addresses the research behind the work “Unconsented Visibility, (2022)” as part of my graduation thesis. In the following pages, I will elaborate on the aim of the piece and the related choices. This piece ... -
The Fact that the world is Hapining
A red curtain opens to reveal a world in which rabbits are left responsible for the sky. Whoever thought this was a gud idea for rabbits is silly. Despite their unasked for tasks, they are somewhat flaffy. Details remain ... -
Tension in Play
Tension in Play is a thesis paper detailing context and methodology surrounding my artwork from the past 2 years while pursing a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington. I recall specific memories from working ... -
Painting as Liturgy
There are a number of ways to find meaning, value, and purpose and I consider myself equally fortunate and cursed to have found painting as a means of seeing the world. Painting is as mysterious as it is blatant, healing ... -
Christina the Astonishing
What is the nature of pain and suffering? How does the body define the human condition? How does psychological makeup affect our identity and perception? The objective of my studio practice is to use painting and drawing ... -
Fat and Sassy A Performance Masked as a Thesis
This thesis has taken on many forms using both technical and conceptual structures. Firstly, out of pure refusal to produce during a global pandemic with very little guidance, access, and support from any institution ... -
Rationale & Outlook (or: Return of the Repressed)
This document, accompanying the exhibition in the Henry Art museum, is a celebration of the corridor as a protected species, as a transformational entity, as a space of self-reflection and a space I hold a lot of concern ... -
An element [in]/[not in] a set
I automatically read the customer’s minutest movements and gaze, and my body acts reflexively in response. My ears and eyes are important sensors to catch their every move and desire. Taking the utmost care not to cause ... -
Available Futures or: How to Mourn When You're Not Done Dying, A Reflection
The following pages describe works that I have made during the 15 months (and counting) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty years from now, glib didactics describing “this time” will pepper the walls of museums for their ... -
Broken Forms and Empty Spaces: Bearing Witness to Destroyed Landscape after the Iowa 2020 Derecho
Tierratrauma, solastalgia, and ecological grief are terms that help describe the feeling of the deep emotional pain one experiences from negative environmental change. With weather events and natural disasters occurring ... -
Queer Architecture and the Facade (how it is used as a defense mechanism and a way of self-expression)
Within this written thesis and in conjunction with a physical practice I will explore the complex nature of identity as a universal concept throughout humanity. Examining how it develops and changes through time as a fluid ... -
Whispering Memories
Starting from inviting volunteers to tell a unique memory, I created to relive the past, to recover the future/ memory rubbing lab, a work that incorporates video, audio and interactive installations. In it, people can ... -
::: flowers unfolding :::
Art is a regenerative kind of healing magic. In the studio, my body works with my mind to make paintings, drawings, collages, ceramic objects, hand-written words, and multi- media instillations. Through this work, I examine ... -
Yarrow for Seventeen Stoners AKA Slipper Tree for You and Me
This document is a culmination of artwork, poetry, and a thesis. The dimensional, playful nuances of this documentation, such with its exclamatory emotion icons exercises awareness that looks outside of the conventional ... -
Ancient Future
I explore human experience through the lens of the natural world while calling attention to preservation and its changing role. Encrusted with crystals my work explores fossilized fragments of our everyday world that speak ... -
Crossing the Border: Identity Issues in the Scope of Representation
After photography first emerged in the early 19th century, it has developed as a technology that enhances human ability to preserve visual information and challenges the tradition of painting as the fundamental apparatus ...
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