Date of Award
5-2010
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.F.A.
Degree Program
Fine Arts
Department
Fine Arts
Major Professor
H.J.Richard
Second Advisor
Jenkens, A.Lawrence
Third Advisor
Gertjejansen, Doyle
Abstract
As our world ramps up the speed of its connections, our identities merge with increasing speed and angles of confluence. Not only are new identities created, but also the more fringe social and cultural elements of our world are exposed to mainstream consciousness. My work is a product of my own fringe background (namely its sheer breadth of experiences not normally visited upon a single person's life). My aim is to add variables to our social and cultural speed of combination and new variety by creating work that is derived from my own experiences to speak to those who are of the newer combinations and newer social recognition. I am motivated to create this work both to perpetually define and redefine myself, and also to give ground to an ‘identity of no identity' on a global scale, to our artistic dialogue and catalog.
Recommended Citation
Chaffin, Jason Edward, "The Embedded American Artist" (2010). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1162.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1162
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