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Residuum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
American socio-economic culture. As the project progressed, the work's meaning changed to explore how the broader governmental or commercial institutions controlled a person's domestic life and the disposability of one's life. This research is exemplified...
Illusion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] China's economy has been growing rapidly in the last few decades as evidenced by recent GDP and Chinese government's enormous investments on public infrastructure. When it comes...
Becoming aware
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
goods. Becoming Aware's stitches gradually separate and the fabric distorts representing the destructive social, economic, and environmental elements of contemporary agriculture. Conventional growing methods, mass-production, and consumption of cotton...
Land of the American condition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] While there has always been separation between the "ideal" family and the dynamics of real family relationships, since the 1960's American culture has ...
Bite the hands that feed you : retrieving material discourse from industrial culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My sculpture uses industrial practices, drawing from material traditions in furniture and architecture to delve into areas of conflict between nature, ...
Re-altered landscapes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The research in this work addresses the systematic construction of the American suburban landscape. The cost-effective model of neighborhood development ...
Ego trip
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
My exhibition, entitled Ego Trip, was an attempt to explore the concepts of biological destiny, productivity, and gender roles through the lens of feminist and queer theory. This lens was focused on the myth of Narcissus, ...
Banal : sculptural meditations on the unfamiliar
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This creative research is about filtering my own displaced experience, of being part of the Filipino Diaspora. With Judeo-Christian spirituality as ...
Altar kulture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My thesis artworks are a result of bringing disparate approaches together into a unique combination of Kustom Kulture processes and Fine Art perspectives. ...
Polite conversations : provoking dialogue through community interaction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This creative research investigated my role as artist in the community and the effect of my activities on both individuals and groups. This work took the form of a series of silk-screened and folded books that were mass ...
Necessary imbalance: ceramic sculpture as human social analogue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The focus of this visual investigation is the relationship between the individual and the larger group. I often struggle to understand myself, my curiosities and motivations and how they relate to the greater society. I ...
VORFREUDE, substitutes for personal fulfillment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)