Date of Award
Fall 1-10-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Drew Beattie
Second Advisor
Lisa Corinne Davis
Academic Program Adviser
Lisa Corinne Davis
Abstract
Pain is a phenomenon like fear, belief, and love -- among the forces that determine the course of our lives long before we are born. These conditions generate the layers of the human soul, marrying one life with others past, present and future.
There is an unconscious consensus on the linearity of time. Our lives, memories, dreams and reflections constantly present a challenge to this general agreement. Life, like time, is a series of interlocking awarenesses. Paths intersect, the actions of individuals deposit change into an internal pool of collective experience. Freud once believed that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead. What do we learn? What do we see?
Recommended Citation
Green, Ronald J., "Bitter Fruit" (2020). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/543