Date of Graduation

5-2018

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts in Art (MFA)

Degree Level

Graduate

Department

Art

Advisor/Mentor

Drolen, Rebecca A.

Committee Member

Mitchell, Marc E.

Second Committee Member

Sytsma, Janine A.

Third Committee Member

Cirgin, Benjamin

Keywords

Art; Contemporary Art; Ecology; Landscape; Nature; Photography

Abstract

Modified Landscapes is a body of work that reflects serious thought regarding Nature and its future. My personal experience and beliefs are at the core of why I believe this subject to be of great importance and why it will sustain many artists’ investigations for the time to come. The influences that informed this process are explored through experiences I had traveling, reading and exploring the photograph as a material object. The manipulation of the photograph is meant to question the beautiful, untouched scene and break the Romantic gaze that is historically tied to representations of Nature and insist upon contemporary reflection on the neglected state of our environment.

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