Dowling, SarahMilutis, JoeBabb, Jacquelyn2018-07-312018-07-312018Babb_washington_0250O_18533.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/42158Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2018[artist statement] WEYOUI want for words words written/uttered by others words forged/apparating in our own minds/mouths words clutched carefully/vehemently to validate, to soothe, to encourage words connecting us across spectral divides/to a plane more solid/stable than our own words that appear in mirrors/through windows to draw us into/out of ourselves words that don’t yet exist words we find and borrow and rearrange in attempts to make sense of the pain/relief words that speak from beyond and cling to us like spirits/that weyoui, as spirits, cling to WEYOUI have braided ourselves/our words together have offered up our tributes have conjured deities have become oracles have met briefly and spoken freely have joy we fear will invalidate our depths have depths we fear will derail our joy have a powerful and tenuous possession of duality have fallen and have risen though sometimes barely but have risen still and have a hope to soften the fall and ease the rise of others WEYOUI are a quiet many WEYOUI are isolated in that quiet but WEYOUI, here, have coalesced into an astral mosaic of color and shape of portrait and sentence of openness and ownership and invitation of elusive transparency and stark corporeality WEYOUI welcome you to witness/engage in/interact with what follows with what WEYOUI, together, have madeapplication/pdfen-USnoneFine artsCreative writingMental healthInterdisciplinary arts and sciencesThesis