Seeing it Straight

<p>This Master of Fine Arts thesis is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is just one step outside of that. This has nothing to do with mysticism, science fiction, or anything else unmoored from established fact. Section also touches on the particular vantage of a female artist with working class roots.THE WORK: Selection of work made during graduate school, and the the guiding thoughts behind each.EMPTINESS, STILLNESS, ABSENCE, GHOSTS, DOUBT: A discussion of influential artists and ideas.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Painting and Printmaking

Year dc:date.available

2007

Author dc:creator

• Harvey, Heather

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ron Johnson

• sacred
• faith
• disbelief
• doubt
• funny
• transformation
• strange
• humor
• secret
• comical
• silly
• nontheism
• skepticism
• playful
• catholic
• secular
• working class
• philosophy
• ethics
• aesthetic
• myth
• painting
• sculpture
• installation
• site specific
• emptiness
• absence
• ghosts
• chaos
• erotic
• violent
• gross
• mortal
• corporeal
• mourning
• indeterminate
• mystery
• ambiguity
• uncertainty
• sensual
• infrastructure
• architecture
• abeyance
• transient
• fleeting
• liminal
• intangible
• unseen
• gothic
• ostranenie
• uncanny
• undecided
• quiet
• ineffable
• atheism
• mold
• holes
• decay
• loss
• damage
• Art and Design
• Arts and Humanities

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1452

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-2451