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We Collect Answers

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

We Collect Answers is an investigation of language, religion, translation, community participation, and ritual and poetry. This written statement is presented alongside an exhibition of paintings and ceramic works structured around a ritual of exchange encouraging social participation. The work argues for a greater understanding of social relationships that occur within social structures such as language and religion, and aims to employ the manifestations of these structures, such as poetry and ritual, towards this end. The questions are presented within a visual experience, also asking how art mediates these inquiries, and the function of art objects as surrogates for linguistic and social connection.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
M.F.A., Art
Level thesis:degree_level
Master of Fine Arts
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Art
Grantor
Cornell University
Year dc:date.issued
2022

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Germain, Erika
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Meksin, Leeza
  • Jonas, Paul Ramirez
  • Malinowska, Joanna Monika

Subjects

dc:subject × 6

Rights

Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Dc Identifier Other
ProQuest Submission ID: 11475
ProQuest Publication ID: 29168721
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:ecommons.cornell.edu:1813/111614

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2026-07-24
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citation

Germain, Erika. We Collect Answers. Master of Fine Arts thesis, Cornell University, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/1813/111614