With the summer coming to a close, I am happy to report that my research project is approaching its final stages! The creatures are coming to fruition, and my painting is developing in an exciting direction thanks to the help of my family and peers. I recently moved back home for the rest of theContinue reading “Antonia Pretelt: Looking to the Future and Final Reflections”
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Joanna Godfrey: Final Reflection on the Inevitable End
As my research comes to a close, I can only reflect on my work and what I hope it will achieve. The impact of my research lies in its ability to confront and reframe how we as individuals and as a society think about mortality, decay, and the sacredness of impermanence. My project draws fromContinue reading “Joanna Godfrey: Final Reflection on the Inevitable End”
Approaching Completion and Looking Forward: Conversations in Art, Technology, and Wildlife
As the pieces that make my body of work finally come together, I find it useful to return to the heart of my research as well as the artists and writers who inspired me in the first place. In her 2016 book Staying With the Trouble, author Donna Haraway emphasizes the importance of creativity andContinue reading “Approaching Completion and Looking Forward: Conversations in Art, Technology, and Wildlife”
“More Passionate About My Project Than Ever Before”
By Raven Watkins, Florida State University [Content warning: skeletal remains] Hello! A lot has happened since we last spoke. I am ending my month in Spain and will be departing soon. Living in Chelva, there were more problems than I originally anticipated. The city is very small, so small that there’s only a half-sized groceryContinue reading ““More Passionate About My Project Than Ever Before””
Joanna Godfrey: Finding Clarity in Chaos
As I continue my research for this summer, I have been absolutely enraged and pleased with the project in front of me, as is the way with anything creatively enriching. Although unsurprising, one of the most pressing obstacles I’ve encountered has been the difficulty of gaining access to witness an embalming. From the conception ofContinue reading “Joanna Godfrey: Finding Clarity in Chaos”
Antonia Pretelt: Hybridizing Colombian and Floridian Iconography through Art
Over the summer, I will be conducting a creative research project that investigates my identity as a Colombian American through three large-scale mixed media paintings. My primary inspiration in creating these works is the concept of hybridity as a bridge between the natural and cultural realms. With a definition originating in biology, hybridity has historicallyContinue reading “Antonia Pretelt: Hybridizing Colombian and Floridian Iconography through Art”
Audrey Lendvay and Gamescape Dérives
Hello everyone! My name is Audrey Lendvay, and I am a second year studio art student at Florida State University, and I now have the exciting honor to introduce you all to my upcoming IDEA Grant research for summer 2024. My project takes a particular interest in the ways in which we participate in physicalContinue reading “Audrey Lendvay and Gamescape Dérives”
Contemplating Decay: Reclaiming the Sacred in the Grotesque
From a young age, I was captivated by death – not in a morbid sense, but as an unanswerable mystery. I couldn’t comprehend how someone could simply vanish, leaving behind only a body. What exactly dissolved in death? What vanished, leaving only silence where there was once the laughter, voice, warmth, and motion of aContinue reading “Contemplating Decay: Reclaiming the Sacred in the Grotesque”
Navigating Surprises and Successes
Hello again! A lot has happened since my first blog, and I am excited to share both the triumphs and challenges I’ve encountered along the way. One of the biggest surprises so far has been adjusting to a new summer schedule. With the semester over, I naively thought I’d have more free time to dedicateContinue reading “Navigating Surprises and Successes”
Pattern-Randomness and Being Posthuman
Already, I have been surprised by how the results of my research have begun to guide changes to the form of my project. Since my last blog post, I have spent the most time developing a small program that generates frame looms for weaving that have varying, random characteristics, which may end up becoming theContinue reading “Pattern-Randomness and Being Posthuman”
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