Honors Thesis and Senior Thesis Projects
Honors Thesis Project:
(in)Visible
Mental health can be a difficult subject to approach, especially in visual media where it is easy to further harmful stereotypes and to do nothing productive. However, I believe that utilizing the gothic with its rich
literary and visual history allows for a different perspective on how we can explore a person’s mental health. Specifically, looking at gothic horror in its written and visual entertainment formats provides us with a means of exploring the internal and external factors of a person’s mental wellbeing. The demonstration of both mental and physical manifestations of normal and paranormal episodes suggests that the presence of one does not negate the existence of the other. To explore this concept, I utilized a mixture of analog and digital photographic processes, as well as an array of technical skills including motion blur, view camera movements, and a variety of facial and body work.
“Completed” April 2024… (to be continued!)
Senior Thesis Project:
For this thesis project, I am exploring what could soon be in our past, what is currently present, and possible future of our oceans. Specifically, I am focusing on topics from my home state of North
Carolina, but most of these issues are widespread. There are three parts to this project; first are what more so resembles painting studies. These pieces are the specimens, the species we are close to losing… what could quite possibly become our past very soon. The second part will be comprised of surrealist paintings depicting scenarios we are heading towards and/or already experiencing. The third and last part will be photography based, where we will see what the coast looks like now through a collage of film photos.
"plankton study"
"surrealist manatee"
"bonnethead shark study"
"blue crab study"
"surrealist saltmarsh sparrow study"