"On" and "Through"
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2012-05
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In search of authenticity, I have begun to question the different aspects that make up life. Perhaps life is merely an array of experiences felt through time. The concepts of experience and time are both universal and elusive. Can an elusive idea be authentic or real? One thing we can say for certain is that we are bodies moving through space, and from birth to death we undergo experience. We experience the present, shaped by our perceptions of the past and future. In order to resolve my questioning of authenticity I will discuss the future, present, past, and our bodies in these time frames. In my work, I strive to create a feeling not only of bodily presence, but also of the present. By this, I simply mean to create a moment in which viewers become wholly aware of themselves in the present, in the now. The moment in which bodily awareness exists brings together the authenticity of the present with the authenticity of the physical, the body. The quest to define, explain, and create this moment has become my thesis project.
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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