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Item Open Access Cut with your eyes, glue with 'em too(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Ruff, Colin, author; Lehene, Marius, advisor; Kokoska, Mary-Ann, advisor; Osborne, Erika, committee member; Moore, Emily, committee member; Steensen, Sasha, committee memberIn the mode of postmodernism, my work attempts to create a meta-narrative by using elements of the larger, grander, and delusional narrative of our American experience. I am interested in exploring the effects of experience (things that happen to us and to objects) on our perception and creation of reality through my artwork. Experiences in general are communicated through signs, symbols, and configurations. These configurations, especially through media, can become a screen preventing direct access to experience. They also can act as a block supplanting real experience with a form of mitigated experience. By deconstructing and reconfiguring symbols and iconography of American mass media from the 1940’s - 1970’s my collages become a vehicle of communication that seek to destabilize the original intent and message behind many of these source images. Through this process, I hope to create a dialogue of the collective experience. I do this through the physical aspects of the work, through the social implications brought in by the fragments, as well as through personally relevant meanings and associations that I deploy in a satirical way.Item Open Access Even flowers can grow out of a mound of shit(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Singer, Kyle Vincent, author; Ryan, Ajean, advisor; Osborne, Erika, committee member; Plastini, Johnny, committee member; Dungy, Camille, committee memberIn this paper, I attempt to explore the importance of flaws, trauma, and repression within the artistic process. I assert the need for self-scrutiny and cathartic expression of my inner struggles. Using surrealist methodologies, I flip the interior and exterior evoking concepts of the unconscious, abjection, and the Lacanian "real." By asserting the need for positive coping mechanisms, I employ chance operations, bricolage, and an obsessive vocabulary of line work to sublimate these flaws. I am in the midst of cultivating a poetic openness within my work divorced from an ultimate definition. Confronting my desire for absolution, I contest that art becomes the only answer to make the world bearable. I encourage the pursuit of a personal becoming no matter how vulnerable and unfamiliar that outcome may prove.Item Restricted Girl descends asunder(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Indermaur, Katherine, author; Cooperman, Matthew, advisor; Steensen, Sasha, committee member; Osborne, Erika, committee memberTo view the abstract, please see the full text of the document.Item Open Access Lake Street weavings(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Bukowski, Kristen, author; Lundberg, Thomas, advisor; Kissell, Kevin, committee member; Moore, Emily, committee member; Osborne, Erika, committee memberLake Street Weavings is a series of five small woven textiles. Their colorful compositions are inspired by my surroundings and reflect the gridded American landscape. I am enamored by the relationship of these grids to woven structure. In this series, I transform colossal grids from our landscape into small woven textiles. I attempt to capture the character of my environment and translate these qualities into weavings. Through Lake Street Weavings, I hope to express my movement through the world as a complex matrix of place and time. The series is also exhibited with a large scale wall hanging, Suspended Function, and a woven accordion book, Night and Day. These additional works explore the same themes as Lake Street Weavings, while emphasizing scale in different ways.Item Open Access One man's trash, is another woman's treasure(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Hamilton, Samantha, author; Lajarin-Encina, Aitor, advisor; Osborne, Erika, committee member; Ryan, Ajean, committee member; DeMirjyn, Maricela, committee memberKitsch and related aesthetic sensibilities have a history of being undervalued and deemed flashy, sentimental, and "low-class." Kitsch aesthetics inspire "cheap" emotions contrary to the sophistication and control associated with an educated audience. Rasquachismo supposes a working-class sensibility, highlighting the hierarchy of materials and that these materials exist within systems of power and value. My work explores these aesthetic sensibilities by acquiring imagery from inherited or low-value sources such as thrift shops and transforming the second-hand or discarded objects I find into new artistic objects that conceptually reflect the materials used. References to gender, labor, utility, and mass production are evoked in my work through the use of found objects as the ground for the painting of second-hand floral patterns.Item Open Access Places as sites of experience(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Allen, Sonja, author; Faris, Suzanne, advisor; Osborne, Erika, committee member; Moore, Emily, committee member; Cooperman, Matthew, committee memberI am sensitive to my environment, and to how perceptions of an experience within a particular geographic location are effected through the relationship of body, object, and place. My work oscillates between human induced and natural systems, and continues to reveal questions regarding the complex relationship between Americans' and the land in the 21st century. Through the process of mining and manipulating large quantities of earth I reference the land as a resource, while acquainting myself to the specific features that set this landscape apart from the rest of North America. The focus on the landscape translates into my art practice, where I explore how a person's sense of self-identity might become altered through experiences within different places and in light of changing landscapes.