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Item Always-Already Absent Present: On Trauma and Materiality(2022-01-01) Rezaei, Alieh; O'Dell, Kathy K. O. D; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsIn Always-Already Absent Present: On Trauma and Materiality, I explore linguistic experience and its effects through my art practice working with organic materials. My story started with a painful car accident. Later, aspects of that trauma were repeated when I realized that being outside my mother tongue, the same traumatic accident was occurring � this time, leaving its mark on my tongue. This theses provides perspective on the concept of death, expanding the notion to the fundamental connection of human beings with nature and the intermediation of language. Living in a language other than my mother tongue, with its constant mandate of translation, has forced me to navigate the following issue: Humans do not have direct access to nature. Rather, this connection is murdered by language. In my artistic practice, I examine this barrier through the formation of waste, the abject, and the language of excrement.Item Clear-cutting the American Mind: Wilderness, Survival, and the Desolation of the Axe(2019-01-01) O'Neill, Bryan Joseph; Cazabon, Lynn; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsIn researching the history of wilderness in America I explored the idea that as Americans, our cultural attitude towards our natural environment has been shaped and influenced by the mindsets and actions of the pioneers and frontiersmen who came before us. I argue that their fearful and destructive stance towards uncultivated land is still imbued in the minds of many Americans who claim to be outdoors enthusiasts and yet deny climate change and support politicians who are actively campaigning against the protection and preservation of our environment. Through the creation of several sculptural works, as well as personal forays into "wilderness,” I attempt to understand and overcome the destructive masculine tendencies of my country’s frontier forefathers. Only through a changing of mindsets and an acceptance of co-existence can we accept and understand our place within the interconnected mesh of all living things.