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Item Restricted Bird pretender(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Riley, Kaelyn Kelly, author; Cooperman, Matthew, advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, committee member; DiCesare, Catherine, committee memberThis collection of poems is occupied with questions about the speaking subject, speech position, romantic love, the poem as an act of willful speech, the untenable spaces between poet and poem and lover and beloved, the hope that romantic love may be a disavowal of male authority, and the fear that it may not.Item Open Access Ceramic analysis of the Tabuchila Complex of the Jama River Valley, ManabÃ, Ecuador(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Herrmann, Corey A., author; Van Buren, Mary, advisor; Zeidler, James, advisor; Fisher, Christopher, committee member; DiCesare, Catherine, committee memberArchaeological excavations by the Proyecto Arqueológico-Paleoetnobotánico RÃo Jama (PAPRJ) in the Jama River Valley of northern ManabÃ, Ecuador, have established a cultural chronology spanning over three millennia of prehispanic occupation. One of these occupations, the Tabuchila Complex of the Late Formative Period (1000 – 500 BCE), remains poorly understood. Excavations at three sites in the Jama Valley in the 1990s recovered ceramic, lithic, obsidian, paleobotanical, archaeofaunal, and human skeletal remains from Late Formative Tabuchila contexts, with the goal of orienting Late Formative occupation of the northern Manabà region to its contemporaries in western lowland Ecuador. This study employs modal ceramic analysis to recognize and catalogue formal and stylistic variation within the recovered Tabuchila ceramic assemblage. Through this analysis the Tabuchila assemblage is compared to other studies of Late Formative Chorrera assemblages to understand how Tabuchila represented a regional variant of and contributor to the formation of the Chorrera ceramic tradition. In addition, a sovereignty-based theoretical approach explores how this ceramic assemblage reflects deeper processes of emergent social complexity and early attempts at establishing inequality in northern ManabÃ's regional mound center of San Isidro. Results and discussions of the analysis examine a community connected with its Middle and Late Formative contemporaries across the western lowlands and engaged in feasting activity in the vicinity of the central mound of San Isidro.Item Restricted Immeasurable mouth of night(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Seebeck, Tashiana, author; Beachy-Quick, Dan, advisor; Steensen, Sasha, committee member; DiCesare, Catherine, committee memberThis thesis is a collection of poetry concerned with the unconscious interior: dreams, nightmares, memories, and the liminal space between. The poems are committed to a necessary logic of surreality and formal experimentation.Item Open Access Macroscopic manifestations(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Isaiah, Benjamin Hamilton, author; Bates, Haley, advisor; Voss, Gary, committee member; DiCesare, Catherine, committee member; Wilson, Robert, committee memberFrom the latter half of the twentieth century through the present, scientific experimentation, investigation, and observations allow our species to attain a level of unprecedented understanding of the physical world. Our tools are capable of perceptions more advanced than ever before in human history. Technological advancements make visible that which we have never before been able to witness or comprehend, from the smallest transformation of scale and the subatomic particles composing all things in our physical environment, to the greatest galactic super-clusters that we inhabit. Forms in our Universe are determined by natural physical laws and reactions set into motion far into the past, proceeding from the Big Bang. Events occurring at scales humans perceive to be hyper-microscopic ultimately determine the outcome of realities at our existence as seen through the human observational reference frame. In turn, events occurring at scales exponentially larger than the human scale also govern the realities existing at scales beyond our familiar frame of reference, realms that the Euclidian mind can only perceive as the abyss. Macroscopic Manifestations captures moments and events occurring at transformations of scale both massive and miniscule, frozen in time. This sculptural work forms associations between objects occurring at unfamiliar scales of existence and objects occurring at the familiar human scale of existence. Demonstrating the resemblance innate to objects at every scale of existence, much of the work contained herein is representative of microcosmic and macrocosmic phenomena, and emulates structures apparent in terrestrial marvels, the flora and fauna of Earth.Item Open Access Transfigurement; Animophilia(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Lambert, Cei A., author; Lundberg, Thomas, advisor; DiCesare, Catherine, committee member; Ryan, Ajean, committee member; Sparks, Diane, committee memberThe illustration-based installation Transfigurement; Animophilia contends with the integration of my subconscious and conscious mind by suspending disintegrated parts that describe a process of transformation. The work is not intended to portray an integrated, resolved person. Using transparent materials that include viewers as they explore illustrations of my body in metamorphosis, I expose the membrane of my subconscious to scrutiny. The metamorphosing chimeras present in this work are distortions of the form I inhabit, yet detailed illustrations coax viewers to suspend their disbelief in these neo-beings. The moments when these creatures merge reflect my drive for individuation and the investigation of my personal metamorphosis. To shift back and forth between visible illustrations and the translucent spaces between images is to invite viewers into my chaotic inner dialogue, where reason argues against feeling, integration alternates with disintegration, and the real parallels the fantastic.