In Search of the Ooey Gooey Good

<p>This thesis explores ideas of everydayness, the mundane, and the repetitive emptiness of consumer culture. It looks at the malaise that plagues everyday life and examines several attempts throughout history to break from its grips which revolve around a search for a more ideal state. This research includes utopias of modernism, the transcendental, the communal living of Shakers and Early Christians, ascetic monks and The Desert Fathers. These ideas have shaped my studio practice as I construct installations based on worlds which allude to the eternal, the otherworldly, and the fragility of our physical world when compared to more eternal spiritual archetypes.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Painting and Printmaking

Year dc:date.available

2007

Author dc:creator

• Clay, Lauren Ashley

Contributors dc:contributor

• Peter Baldes

• exhibit
• mixed media
• polymer clay
• acrylic
• paper
• self-taught artists
• The Shakers
• asceticism
• monasticism
• Japanese cute culture
• paper sculpture
• everydayness
• Walker Percy
• suburbs
• sprawl
• transcendence
• Art and Design
• Arts and Humanities

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1508

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-2507