Micro_COSMOS

Authors

Rachael E. Freyman Brown, University of Texas-Pan American

Date of Award

5-2006

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

Art

First Advisor

Lenard Brown

Second Advisor

Philip Field

Third Advisor

Dr. Richard Phillips

Abstract

This exhibition thesis and its accompanying exhibition invite the viewer to contemplate large and small connections to nature in our lives. How are backyard gardens a metaphor for the way our culture thinks of or treats nature and the environment? Do we have personal or spiritual connections to the land, plants, and the ecosystem, or do we see them merely as products for our use? The work in micro _COSMOS is an attempt to balance and unite paradoxes: the spiritual within the everyday, the natural and the constructed, and to come to terms with the constant cycle of regeneration in all its guises.

Comments

Copyright 2006 Rachael E. Freyman Brown. All Rights Reserved.

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Granting Institution

University of Texas-Pan American