In The End We All Will Be Trees

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dc.contributor.advisorBode, Peer
dc.contributor.advisorScheer, Joseph
dc.contributor.advisorContino, William
dc.contributor.advisorLattanzi, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorEarle, Jessica J. A.
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-06T15:48:44Z
dc.date.available2019-11-06T15:48:44Z
dc.date.issued2017-05
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.abstractThe western landscape has sparked the imagination of writers, musicians, and artists since the first Europeans left their footprints in the bush. Explorers, cowboys, and prospectors have left their mark on the land and in the imaginations of those of that have followed them. The vastness, danger, and resources are even today something to be tamed, tested, and used. Young men cut their teeth on the wilderness, and grizzled, leathery, graybeards continue to prove their worth through domination over peaks and beasts alike. These adventurers lust after the sublime: that fear and awesomeness that makes you quake in your boots, and knocks the breath out of your lungs with force of an avalanche. What if we were seduced into something more intimate than such needs for dominance over the land? By way of example, in ways that might parallel the lived experiences of indigenous peoples. John Muir recognized rocks, sequoias, and streams as kin; and Henry David Thoreau lost himself in the woods in order to find himself. Instead of lusting for an enormous sublime what if we fell into the minutia by sinking into the dirt, sending roots into the darkness, and absorbing the past buried beneath it while watching the patterns of light change on the ferns or moss.en_US
dc.format.extent65 pagesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10829/23508
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.subjectPublic arten_US
dc.subjectInstallations (art)en_US
dc.subjectVideoen_US
dc.subjectTime baseden_US
dc.subjectSounden_US
dc.subjectSculptureen_US
dc.subjectInteractiveen_US
dc.subjectLive streamen_US
dc.titleIn The End We All Will Be Treesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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