Browsing by Author "McKee, Patrick, committee member"
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Item Open Access Beauty in decay(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Brakefeld, Jennifer L., author; Sullivan, Patrice, advisor; Osborne, Erika, advisor; Simons, Stephen, committee member; McKee, Patrick, committee memberIndustrial Agricultural complexes offer an aesthetic beauty in the decay of its materials and structures. American interest in agriculture as an investment in domestic self-reliance has waned over time leaving behind gigantic structures that are left to deteriorate without upkeep. The lack of upkeep causes a physical deterioration of the structures and the materials. My work exposes the beauty in this deterioration though the use of the formal elements of painting. Color, texture, form and light are the elements used for the execution of my paintings. Canvas size also plays a key role in my work as it places the subject matter on a historically relevant scale in a similar fashion to the painting Burial at Ornan by Gustav Courbet.Item Open Access In defense of wise emotions: the relation between emotion and wisdom in autobiographical memories(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Quinn, Amy, author; Le, Thao, advisor; Fruhauf, Christine, committee member; McKee, Patrick, committee memberAutobiographical memories are an often untapped resource in research. The current study utilizes these memories to understand the role of emotions in individuals' reporting of gaining and using wisdom. Bluck & Glück's (2004) previous research on autobiographical memories and how wisdom is used in daily life forms the basis for this study. This study extends Bluck & Gluck's (2004) study by examining the nature of emotions in individuals' recollection of events in their lives in which they gained and used wisdom. To examine the role of emotion in wisdom, this study examined 122 community-dwelling adults' scores on the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS; Ardelt, 2003) and analyzed participants' responses when asked to recall situations in which the participants gained and used wisdom. Positive and negative emotion words were coded in the interviews, and analyses were conducted using thematic content coding. Results revealed that when participants discussed an experience in which they gained wisdom, they expressed more negative emotions words in their narrative. On the other hand, when participants were asked to recall an experience in which they used wisdom, they expressed more positive emotion words in their narrative. Participants' expression of using logic/reasoning with respect to wisdom was also examined; it was found that individuals used more logic words when discussing using wisdom but not when gaining wisdom. The influence of gender and age was also considered and revealed no statistically significant findings. Autobiographical narratives revealed some interesting findings on the role of emotions in gaining and using wisdom. Future interventions may want to facilitate emotional experiences in order to help individuals either gain or use wisdom to make their lives more positive overall.Item Open Access Language games(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2013) Wasielewski, Audrey Lynn, author; Faris, Suzanne, advisor; Moseman, Eleanor, committee member; Bates, Haley, committee member; McKee, Patrick, committee memberThe complex nature of language has interested me as long as I can remember: how we experience it and how it affects our lives in both personal and public ways. This fascination was the spark for a thesis body of work that considers Ludwig Wittgenstein's "language game" in the context of contemporary discourse. In his publication Philosophical Investigations, he first coins the term, noting that it is "meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life." This idea that we activate language as we speak it, is the cornerstone of my personal exploration of the written and spoken word as a medium and the foundation of this thesis body.Item Restricted Picnic in the abattoir(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Hyche, Emma Catherine, author; Steensen, Sasha, advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, committee member; McKee, Patrick, committee memberPicnic in the Abattoir is a collection investigating the negotiation of self amid a myriad of antagonistic forces. These forces include pop cultural products (particularly horror films), violence against women and its depiction in media, viewership and the gaze, etc. The collection is structured in three sections, or "Acts", supplemented with a "Postscript". This structure is intended to mimic, but ultimately subvert, the traditional three-act structure of narrative fiction and film. These poems not only serve as a continuation of my work in the past two years within horror tropes and ontologies of "victimhood," but also broach new topics for me, like the influence of film on ways of seeing and understanding the world and the paradoxical intertwining of fascination and aversion within the viewing experience.Item Open Access Rock collection paintings(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2013) Cameron, Mikie, author; Sullivan, Patrice, advisor; Emami, Sanam, committee member; Flippen, Paul, committee member; McKee, Patrick, committee member; Moseman, Eleanor, committee memberSimply observing the world around me can be fascinating. Patterns and forms I find on stones and pebbles especially provoke my imagination. In my works, I observe and render natural forms onto surfaces; I interpret rocks from my collection into multi-colored, multi-layered, quiet paintings on carefully prepared panels. By translating my experience of these objects into art I am investigating my own perception of such an other, the alien rock - what it means to enter into a dialogue with it, subsequently constituting it and reconciling myself with it. Following this activity, a painting is created; an entirely new thing is made that the viewer can then contemplate. What follows is a description of how my work relates to contemporary theoretical considerations of perception, phenomenology, and epistemology. The rock collection paintings are a visual exploration of theoretical notions including phenomenology of perception, play transformed into structure, and experience of the other. As a result of the process of experiencing and translating a rock into a quiet oil painting I produce a visual playground. What exists is not two closed off subjects: the painting and the viewer, but a playful yet serious dialogue occurring between the two entities. What emerges from the discourse between viewer and painting is a form of self-knowledge. These works of art are forms of truth that, in part, shape the viewer.Item Restricted We grow cold together(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Hill, Mary, author; Cooperman, Matthew, advisor; Beachy-Quick, Dan, committee member; McKee, Patrick, committee memberWe Grow Cold Together is a book of poems inspired by my time working as a live-in caregiver for a man with Parkinson's. On the broadest level, the manuscript is thematically engaged with the nature and representation of trauma, both the trauma of witnessing another's illness and death as well as the trauma of acutely realizing one's own mortality. We Grow Cold Together also seeks to trouble the boundaries between life and death, self and other, absence and presence, & reality and imagination.