Abstract

Using the medium of oil painting, this thesis will investigate the ways that memories of my past inform and distort my perception of reality. Using domestic spaces as a framework in combination with my own body as the subject matter, I am creating compositions that redefine the meaning of home as a concept. Rather than a physical place of comfort, home is a cemetery for past selves that I revisit in my mind and grieve, no matter the time that has passed. By expressing this internal decay through physically scraping and sludging paint onto large scale surfaces, I aim to pull my audience into my world of isolation that unravels memories of my past and the cyclical ways they entrap me now, as I grow up.

Publication Date

11-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Fine Arts Studio (MFA)

Department, Program, or Center

Art, School of

College

College of Art and Design

Advisor

Cliff Wun

Advisor/Committee Member

Eileen Bushnell

Advisor/Committee Member

Emily Glass

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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