Date of Award
5-1-2026
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Mass Communication and Media Arts
First Advisor
Spahr, Robert
Abstract
The Mind Of The Maker and all of the fragments incorporated into it have been carefully selected and arranged according to my aspirations to make sense of the world through the mediums and concepts that I have been exposed to. The installation is a tribute to the process and trials that resulted in every other completed work before the completion of my thesis. In this text, I will explore my personal understanding of materials, their malleability, and their relationship to a culture of mass production. I will outline the strategies and motifs that are the foundation of my own world-building and project completion. Then I will delve into the realities of executing the act of creation and the ways in which that labor produces both the object to be presented and the scraps cast off. I am in the process of finding the scraps to be just as important to myself as a creator as the objects of my pursuits. All of the works discussed are now in acknowledgement of their existence as a half of a result and their relationship to all of the removed elements. Using borders, armatures, multiples, and labor, these small sections of my life have been reorganized and presented. Organization becomes the artform. Selection and arrangement become the skill on display. There is no object without them.
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