Reshaping and Recovering: Painting as an Existential Meditation

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dc.contributor.advisorKehoe, Patriceen_US
dc.contributor.authorReynolds, Susanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArten_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-06-04T05:46:43Z
dc.date.available2004-06-04T05:46:43Z
dc.date.issued2004-05-12en_US
dc.description.abstractMy paintings evolve from a series of re-configurations. They develop through a system of painting and repainting, shaping and reshaping and coding and decoding. This system reflects not only my intention to develop meaningful, compelling work. My painting process reflects my determination to find purpose in life in general. The spirit of the work is childlike. It is intentionally simple in its approach to abstraction. Children's toys and science textbook imagery are appropriated and playfully transformed into formal elements. A construct of layers and fragments, the work functions like a puzzle. It is my existence that I seek to understand, to piece together, and it is by painting and shaping the canvas that I make my findings visible. Throughout this thesis, I intend to explain how my painting process mirrors the spiritual introspection I engage in both inside and outside the creative act. In order to shed light on how I make this connection, I describe the methods, the influences and the references that form and inform my paintings.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1469
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledFine Artsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledReligion, Biblical Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt Historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledshaped paintingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcontemporary christian arten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddevotional arten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcreation Creator and creativityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtoys and arten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledart and Goden_US
dc.titleReshaping and Recovering: Painting as an Existential Meditationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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