Rather than just looking back and seeing the face-value of what our Founding Fathers believed, it’s important to look deeper and understand exactly what they believed, where they obtained these ideas, and, most importantly, ...
This thesis shows the importance of history and how condensed countries have complex
issues and tensions. The main point has been to highlight the nature of the war in Yemen and the dire need for understanding, attention, ...
When collecting post-blast explosive residue examinations, it is important to ensure that all samples taken from the scene are taken with residue collection supplies that have been exposed to as little prior contamination ...
The author has always been drawn to international films for their art form, creativity, and deep immersion into a world much different than their own. “A Journey Through Cultural Cinema” discusses and reveals the beauty ...
Ancient sherds and samples collected from Gangjin and Gimjae celadons (Koryŏ period, 918-1392 CE) were previously analyzed to determine the firing conditions and to evaluate the body and glaze chemistry. Those results show ...
Exclusionary discipline practices routinely exclude students from the academic environment through means such as office discipline referrals, suspension, and expulsion. These strategies, in turn, initiate student involvement ...
Particle size distributions present a unique challenge for analysis and presentation and simply reporting the D50 value fails to capture any information that describes the width of the distribution. By fitting the particle ...
My thesis consists of several major pieces about a profound
experience of encountering an ash tree. The tree is in the
Kanakadea Park, in front of Almond Lake, in Hornell. These
visiting experiences bring me strength, ...
The following is a supporting document for my ceramic art MFA thesis exhibition in the Turner Gallery at Alfred University in April of 2022. The purpose of this document is to articulate the language that my work uses to ...
I am revitalizing the metaphoric potential of the vessel form by utilizing
technologies of clay 3D printing and rapid prototyping, to create bright cyborgian
pottery objects that acknowledge early ceramic traditions while ...
Surface is a topsoil, an epidermal layer inviting us to wonder what is beneath and what came before. Likewise, painting is what we read on the outermost layer, an exterior where we pause to consider the residue of the brush ...
This thesis presents the formal, conceptual, material, and aesthetic aspects of my
studio practice which are rendered in three ways: painting, sound, and installation.
Society can be seen as an independent being and ...
This series of paintings documents the development of learning about my family from an outsider’s perspective on the internet while searching for my identity and origins. As an international student of 10 years away from ...
My painting practice is an act of mourning. Mourning is a necessary externalization of the internalize grief that everyone will face, perhaps continuously face, during their life time. Mourning of the decease presents a ...
My work, acrylic paintings on varied concrete surfaces, deals in the language of pattern
and reproduction. These patterns come from decorative interior sources, such as mid-century fabrics or 20th century woodblock-printed ...
My works strip away the fundamental qualities of time as a medium for exploring the body and how it reacts to fluctuations of space-time. In my work, I use a structured indeterminacy to find the meaning within the liminal ...
Planned obsolescence, surveillance capitalism, throw-away culture, and the readymade are all interconnected. Boundaries, layers, colors, shapes, and the relationship between these aspects are concepts I consciously think ...
Through a conversational interview format “Sugar Maple Tree, Terracotta Brick, O
Computador, e Eu” discusses post-humanist perspectives, defines
multidimensionalism and aims to begin conversations concerning local ...
The ceramic sculpture and installation work in my thesis exhibition, titled
SOLASTALGIA, explores uncanny relationships between architecture, photography,
climate change, and war. The exhibition is imbued with a sense ...
In both human bodies and ecology, healing is a layered experience known by its
transformative outcomes. My work translates the slow, invisible process of
healing into textural, visual meditations. I make the invisible ...