Graduation Term
2023
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Committee Chair
Nathania Rubin
Abstract
Saying “I’ve always drawn” feels stupid but it’s true. I have always drawn. I’ve spent my whole life using drawing to understand, and this thesis is no exception. Through the conventions of comic, I explore my current practice which concerns death, memorial, the ground, and an examination of the routines and rituals that lead me there. I believe in reverent observation and intentional, meticulous mark-making, driven by an understanding that what I am looking at cannot look back, at least in a human sense. Inspired by the obsessive and thorough artists Ellen Altfest, Josephine Halvorson, and Vija Celmins, I cultivate a level of attentiveness beyond simple looking in an attempt to translate feelings into marks, and to get closer to understanding something outside myself.
Access Type
Thesis-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Yeager, Amy, "Critical Choices: an Attempt at Understanding What I'm Trying To Understand through Drawing through Drawing" (2023). Theses and Dissertations. 1715.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/1715
DOI
https://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2023.20230711063203395413.999936
