Semester
Spring
Date of Graduation
2026
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MFA
College
College of Creative Arts
Department
Not Listed
Committee Chair
Gerald Habarth
Committee Member
Michael Sherwin
Committee Member
Jason Zeh
Committee Member
Jeffery Moser
Abstract
This thesis and accompanying exhibition explore the translation of panenhenic mystical experience and the collaboration with Appalachian natural spaces into abstracted landscape images. This work aims to “map” a sensation of fundamental unity and gesture toward the ineffable by utilizing found-object stamp printing, and automatic mark-making. Inspired by practical mystic traditions and contemporary landscape painting, this body of work, entitled Orogenesis, combines intricate, abstracted ink landscape drawings and photographs to create images suggestive of the mystical patterns in the process.
Recommended Citation
Butcher, Timothy Ryan, "Orogenesis" (2026). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 13273.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/13273