Garvens, EllenPatterson, Hannah McGhee2014-10-202014-10-202014-10-202014Patterson_washington_0250O_13366.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/26881Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2014I was raised practicing Hinduism from birth in the unlikely environment of the Bible Belt of the South East. Eventually my art practice became an important means of metabolizing this experience. I employ the use of materials, practices, palette and imagery representative of my relationship with the Hindu practices. In this body of work, I acknowledge an awareness of the appropriative nature of the American Neo-Hindu movement. This expression of complicated identity manifests itself with a twinge of bittersweet humor in my work. Moving imagery presented as time-based video work combined with shorter repeating gestures in .GIF format act to establish a platform of visual vocabulary as a means of exploring the dualities of identity and projection.application/pdfen-USCopyright is held by the individual authors.Beyoncé; Film; Performance; Photography; Pop Culture; VideoArt criticismFilm studiesFine artsfine artsThesis