Browsing Theses by Subject "art"
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1b, black legs, 52"
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)1b, black legs, 52” is an effort to reconcile with history. Through the recontextualization of black pornographic images, this exhibition serves as a re-imagining of what black women’s futures could be. By creating images ... -
The Chicken Is Just Dead First
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)My thesis exhibition encapsulates my lived experience as a Black woman from Barbados who moved to Guelph, Ontario at eighteen. My studio and artistic research is focused on the ways that food, ritual, hair, and colonialism ... -
Condemned to a Perpetual Jacuzzi… With Millions of Your Best Friends
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-21)Condemned to a Perpetual Jacuzzi… With Millions of Your Best friends is a multi-media exhibition that investigates the personal, the socio-political and the cultural notions of home. The mind’s vision of home is most often ... -
Customer Service
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-29)Customer Service is a half-hour storytelling performance that uses PowerPoint and drawing to discuss my experience working at a call centre in Moncton, New Brunswick. The performance uses this autofictional narrative to ... -
The Dionysian Temple of Toronto An Exploration of Nietzsche’s Affirmation of Life
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-14)This thesis investigates the life-affirming Dionysian philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and how its components can be translated into a Dionysian temple. Ever since Nietzsche’s pronouncement of the death of God, affirming ... -
For Every Line Casts A Shadow
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-08)The blank page represents a void, an open area of space that holds the potential for architecture. Through a process of drawing points, lines and planes, the void of the paper is cut to become an arrangement of curated, ... -
forms of relief
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-19)I am calling this paper, and the body of work that it supports: forms of relief. The word relief has a couple of meanings: in the sculptural sense, the Latin root word relievo means to “raise or to lighten”, visually ... -
Instruments
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-11)The Instruments installation represents the superimposition of two systems. The marketed elements that comprise the hegemony exerted by commodity culture are placed on top of the occult qabalistic Tree of Life. This ... -
(Post)Colonial Tectonics: reflections on relations in Indigenous spatial practice between the Beautiful Waters and Willow River
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)I find myself studying architecture in Cambridge, Ontario, a settler on lands stewarded by the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples for countless generations, on a tract following the Grand River (or Willow ... -
The Re-examined Life
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)The Re-examined Life is an interdisciplinary exhibition of contemplative and interactive artworks that use the expectations of conventional belief systems to question widespread perceptions and value judgments of our current ... -
The Re-examined Life
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)The Re-examined Life is an interdisciplinary exhibition of contemplative and interactive artworks that use the expectations of conventional belief systems to question widespread perceptions and value judgments of our current ... -
rinse and repeat
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)rinse and repeat is a collaborative thesis exhibition of art created by my plant collaborators and I that uses the visual language of sculpture, photography, performance, audio narratives, and collaboration to question the ... -
Second Skin: Painting Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-08)This thesis is a creative and conceptual inquiry into the role of surface or skin in architectural theory and practice, and the nature of its relationship to architecture’s form, structure, and depth. The surface of ... -
Seedlings
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-05)Seedlings is a fictional, constructed ecosystem. It is a garden-like installation consisting of a coming-together of numerous printed, gathered, gifted, and reconstituted components that “cross-pollinate” the gallery space. ... -
Tracings: Unraveling Home in the Diaspora
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-28)Tracings: Unraveling Home in the Diaspora presents works that contemplate the notion of home, post-migration. Inspired by my family’s journey from the Middle-East to Canada, the thesis examines ways in which the juxtaposition ... -
The Trumpets
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-07)The work of my MFA thesis exhibition comes directly out of the physical processes that constitute my studio practice. It is work that embodies the labour of my hands and the decisions that guided them in their struggle ... -
ULTRA
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis paper is meant to serve as a supporting document for a thesis exhibition that was held the University of Waterloo Art Gallery. The show consisted of paintings on Plexiglas and sculptural installations with ... -
Uncertain Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-24)"Uncertain Memory" features a series of figurative oil paintings on canvas and paper inspired by photographs from my family archive. My paintings are developed in stages; beginning with a process of mining and selecting ... -
The White House, and Other Counter-Narratives from the Lockdown
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-17)Contemporary emplacement demands movement, whether through migration, travel, or transcultural exchange. Identity, as positioned by the postcolonial writer Édouard Glissant, is linked fundamentally with change and contact ...