Rumination
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2015-05-10
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The installation, Rumination, explores the impact production of art has on me while struggling with depression. By allowing my emotions to be expressed in another communicative manner, I was able to overcome the battle with hopelessness. The process of creating my installation of gelatin discs has become a therapeutic way to confront my past, repressed memories, while escaping into art. This escape is therapeutic, for it allows me to form a relationship with art, where I find the inner inclination of my work's concept. Every disc in Rumination is a transmission of my emotions. The creation of my work focuses primarily on a self-reflection of events that are detrimental to my psychological state.
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Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Alfred University Honors Program.
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Honors thesis, Art, Major Depressive Disorder, Depression, Psychology