Wonder Lux

Wonder Lux is an art project that investigates the problematic relationship between the actual and the ideal, in the context of an attempt to construct a personal reality where these two concepts are one and the same. The approach taken is to create paintings based on or filtered through my internal psychic states, and to bring them together with other found images in order to reinforce this personal construction of reality, where what is external to me will more closely reflect what is internal in me. In doing this, the project investigates how the images we encounter in the world are complexly implicated in our desires, illusions, nostalgia, delusions, fantasies, resentments, and utopian/dystopian confusions. The project is conceived as a response to a complexly changing world that constantly presents new difficulties, with the constant demand to either accede to, or retreat from, external realities.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Art and Design

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Theses

Grantor dc:publisher

Auckland University of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Fitzsimons, Kirsten Maree

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Jervis, Ian
• Redmond, Monique

• Painting
• Real
• Ideal

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10292/8379

OAI record oai:identifier

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