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(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Irmen, Kelley Diane, author; Steensen, Sasha, advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, 1973-, committee member; Lindsay, James E., 1957-, committee member
Here is my fourth version of the book and this one directs itself and tells me to stop being confessional and to save my divulgence for another manuscript. This manuscript focuses on the relationship between the Vorarephile and the Exile - because he is no prophet, he is a wanderer who has been cut off from roaming. I continue the organization by eons, epochs, and theories, gaps in time, extinctions, and fossilization. As the book progresses, I bring in "the People" and I begin experimenting with the pronoun "I." Because for me, it is necessary that the "I" be fractured and in pieces, which means I, the author, am every era, character, place, or idea represented in this series. Initially, I was identifying with the Vorarephile, but as I continued in my re-ordering, I realized I am my exile, I caused my exile, and I've been exiled from exiling. Trust me; this makes sense, especially if you view exile as wandering, wandering as a way to escape, and then anxiety halting your fallback. So, let's say a person uses exploring the landscape in a nomadic-type fashion and suddenly is boxed in by all of the open space. Before, this space was a comfort and now, it is only a road and more roads and more roads, none of which I can ever turn of off.
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(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) McGrath, Meghan, author; Yust, Dave, 1939-, advisor; Sullivan, Patrice M., advisor; Coronel, Patricia D., committee member; Faris, Suzanne, committee member; Flippen, Paul, committee member; Beachy-Quick, Dan, 1973-, committee member
My current work, as a painter, is interactive and personal. Patterns of communication, relationships, and personalities are represented through family portraits. I am interested in dissecting characteristics and connecting them visually. Rather than nostalgia, memory serves as a visual history. The portraits become metaphors for maps describing time, place and linear movement.
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Humanity unmasked
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Scott, Stanley James, author; Dormer, James T., advisor; Simons, Stephen R., advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, 1973-, committee member; Flippen, Paul, committee member; Lehene, Marius, committee member
The darker facets of human nature drive my work. The figures you see in these prints and drawings are very real depictions of, and responses to, internal conflict. These figures offer the viewer a deeper level of understanding of the human condition as present both within the artist and society as a whole. I am particularly interested in the elements that make us uncomfortable and the aspects of ourselves we deny. These unexpressed emotions are the source of the tension in the images. The tension that binds each of these figures is inside us, driving our own actions and choices. I feel we need to accept and acknowledge our inner demons, both at an individual and a societal level. My work accepts this internal conflict as a normal part of the human condition that we all feel when we struggle. By speaking honestly through the works, the viewer is challenged to redefine their relationship to the internal struggle invoking a raw response.