Even flowers can grow out of a mound of shit
Date
2018
Authors
Singer, Kyle Vincent, author
Ryan, Ajean, advisor
Osborne, Erika, committee member
Plastini, Johnny, committee member
Dungy, Camille, committee member
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In 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.
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coping mechanisms
Lacanian real
unconscious
drawing
catharsis
open work