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These digital collections contain Department of Art and Art History capstone projects from 2012 to present, organized into themes by studio art concentration.

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    Gabrielle Andreozzi: capstone
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Andreozzi, Gabrielle, artist
    The artist's statement: Reclamation, Reconnection, & Rebirth of The Sacred. Shields depict imagery that bring power and take on the symbolism of what they are meant to protect. For centuries, these objects have carried weight of meaning within battle as well as through their visual displays of honor and adoration towards one's name and historical achievements. Traditionally rooted in patriarchal ideals of family heraldry and war, I am reclaiming this object to honor my identity that has come to be so sacred to me. My most recent work is an exploration of my path to becoming a woman, through a visual manifestation of my own personal narrative. There have been pivotal traumatic moments in my life in which respect for my womanhood and my feminine identity have been compromised, causing me to close myself off to my own empowerment and validity - disconnecting from the divine feminine and my perceptions of the goddess that had been deeply instilled upon me by my own mother when I was young. I have held on to many memories that have caused me to react to the present moment out of fear and anger - feeling vulnerable and unprotected. These shields are realizations of my feminine strength and how I am repositioning what I saw as threats into allied mentors, helping me to gain wisdom and move forward on my personal journey towards my own enlightenment, while letting go and forgiving - and most importantly, forgiving myself.
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    Gabrielle Andreozzi: capstone
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Andreozzi, Gabrielle, artist
    The artist's statement: Motions of the unsaid: a series of the self. Spending a year in pandemic has been cause for much self-reflection and reinvention of the self. Forced solitude, manifested both physically and mentally, caused me to realize how uncomfortable with introspection and out of touch with myself I had become. Over the course of a single year, I have gone through more change within my reality than I have in my entire life. I have always been inspired by the way photographic imagery can capture a moment in time that is much too fleeting to be perceived by the naked eye. With one burst of a shutter, these snapshots can be frozen in time, existing past the moment and into the future - forgetting the specificity but remembering and honoring what was and has been. The self-portraiture within this series captures my subconscious experience of growth and emergence through everything I have gone through as a young woman - a visual exploratory event of the transformation unfolding within me that I have not had the words to express. The ambiguous and ever flowing nature of my being is something that I have come to embrace - every beautiful moment I wish I could live in forever, every painful moment when my heart has hurt more than I could have ever imagined - no longer trying to battle against their remembrance out of fear of exposing myself and my vulnerability. These are the motions of my metamorphosis.