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Burkhardt Oler, Karla Kaye--Exhibitions; Dissertations, Academic; Exhibition catalogs;

Abstract

To create images is to create the soul, opening up to the enigma within us. If the body is the container for the soul, how we navigate through life may individuate our essential nature. How we react to and utilize this awareness provides a framework for portraying our existence. With this concept in mind, I am using my scanned body image as the basis for my artwork, a type of clinical observation, both inside and out. By scanning portions of my body, cropping as a basis for a matrix, printing the image from an inkjet printer on to transparency film and then layering and shifting I can create multiple forms from one body. The manipulation of this body form creates a visual record. My process of collecting and manipulating imagery is an analogy for creating symbolic significance through a visual document. In presenting this collection of visual information in a gallery setting my intent is to construct scientific objectivity. Simultaneously I hope to subvert the notion of the practical lab so that something else is considered. This non-specific environment is created to suggest the beginning and the ending of physical life in my culture, which one enters and exists the physical world through a clinical environment. Though, each of our circumstances surrounding these two events varies. Discussing the soul indirectly may be the only way to approach it in a concrete fashion. Images elicit multiple interpretations and responses from the viewer.

Year of Submission

2002

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Department of Art

First Advisor

Aaron Wilson

Second Advisor

Crit Streed

Third Advisor

Tim Dooley

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Date Original

2002

Object Description

1 PDF file (6 leaves)

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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