Semester

Summer

Date of Graduation

2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

MFA

College

College of Creative Arts

Department

Printmaking

Committee Chair

Joseph Lupo

Committee Member

Kofi Opoku

Committee Member

Jeffrey Moser

Committee Member

Gerald Habarth

Committee Member

Jason Zeh

Abstract

This thesis explores how digital collage and printmaking can be used to develop images through acts of subjective response, intentional and unintentional acts of appropriation, and parodic re-use and comparison pushed to absurd extremes. It looks at the history of creating art for parodic re-use and examines “Pataphysics”, developed by and for art appropriation of pattern, form, and process. These concepts are explained and related to visual artwork that was made for the thesis exhibition Apostrophes and Archimedes Cast Shadow Puppets. The exhibition invites viewers to experience the phenomenon of observation, automatic transformation, and creation using multiple modalities of exaggerated and absurd reprographic image making techniques to compare our memory and creativity to similar devices.

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Printmaking Commons

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