Prisoners Floating in the Air

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dc.contributor.advisorScheer, Joseph
dc.contributor.advisorSouther, Eric
dc.contributor.advisorChen, Xiaowen
dc.contributor.authorSun, Yunda
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-13T12:50:08Z
dc.date.available2021-09-13T12:50:08Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the spring of 2020, I was looking through journals of project proposals and there was one written down in 2017 about the use of cyanotypes to make videos. It was never tested due to the lack of access to equipment. The project was forgotten about for a while. It just so happened that after coming to Alfred, all the equipment needed existed here so hence the first tests begun. After completing the first test video using the Cyanotype process, the experiments were gradually expanded with the other printing processes. These included: screen printing, laser-cut woodblock prints, digital printing, laser printing, and photopolymer gravures. The choice of paper also ranged from the most basic drawing papers, newsprint to an extensive variety of different handmade Xuan papers including Chinese tea packing paper, Chinese calligraphy paper for writing Chinese New Year messages and couplets, and even papers for children to practice their characters. Although the overall process of making the videos was tedious and labor-intensive, enjoyment was amplified by the process of connecting traditional, handcrafted techniques with digital, mechanized equipment and making moving images from processes that had been producing static images. After the process, when the video is finally played in 8K resolution, the video will have the same texture and quality as all the paper and processes that have brought paintings and prints to the screen, and the viewer will be able to see all the local details as close to the screen as when watching paintings and prints. When the video was being printed on paper, light and shadow were trapped on it and into it creating a dilemma. This exasperated the quandary that included my confusion about the future as a young artist becoming a bystander with my peers, in a fast-moving society while being a foreign student trapped in between China and the United States during the 2020 pandemic. We are not only trapped in the same erratic policies like ping pong balls; we are also like prisoners tied to paper kites floating in the sky, our seemingly free lives are also bound by the rules of society’s expectations and acquiescence carried by paper. There is always a way out of the dilemma, and the prisoners and kites in the air also will eventually fall, but until we know the result, it will always be unknown where our lives will float with the paper.en_US
dc.format.extent100 pagesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10829/24637
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofScholes Libraryen_US
dc.rightsThe author has granted Alfred University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other rights.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://libraries.alfred.edu/AURA/termsofuseen_US
dc.subjectMFA thesisen_US
dc.subjectElectronic Integrated Artsen_US
dc.subjecttrappeden_US
dc.subject2020 Pandamicen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.titlePrisoners Floating in the Airen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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