A seven-letter word for art

Abstract

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Our assumptions about our shared systems of thought and action are dangerously misleading, and our constructed reality must be questioned in order for us to exist as more than petty drones. My work incites this act of questioning in a disquietingly humorous manner. By challenging the tenets of communal acceptability within the microcosm of fine art, I prompt continued acts of questioning beyond the domain of fine art. In this capacity, my work retains an insidious quality, a careful guile, which instigates the critical scrutiny of our shared reality.