Date of Graduation
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MFA
College
College of Creative Arts
Department
Intermedia & Photography
Committee Chair
Michael Sherwin
Committee Co-Chair
Gerald Habarth
Committee Member
Kofi Opoku
Committee Member
Amy Schissel
Abstract
This MFA thesis addresses work completed and presented in a thesis exhibition at West Virginia University. It expresses the personal motivations, the process and the inspirations behind the exhibit. Through the use of abstraction, I was searching for a personal change in perspective, and a way to identify with people on a level that mirrors my long-term experience in the military. This was explored by uniformly adding Adobe Photoshop filters, in a step by step manner, to a selected series of portraits., to a selected series of portraits. The hope was by removing the surface characteristics of an individual what was left would add humanity to the faceless crowd, or the they .
Recommended Citation
Oliver, Michael, "The(y)" (2018). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 6348.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/6348