Lin, ZhiXie, Lanxia2015-09-292015-09-292015-09-292015Xie_washington_0250O_14789.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/33897Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015Based on my memories of hazy cityscapes, the sensations of the contradictions in beauty in life, and spatial disorientations and other-worldliness, I have created three works that render blurred, mysterious, ethereal, and life-like objects on canvas in acrylic and video. These objects breathe and glow, and give the viewer a sense of space and one’s relationship to one’s environment from a detached and context-void perspective.application/pdfen-USCopyright is held by the individual authors.Fine artsfine artsBreaths of the EtherThesis