DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/TTKX-HY18
Defense Date
2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Herdimas Anggara
Second Advisor
Luiza Dale
Third Advisor
Sam Lavigne
Fourth Advisor
Aisha Jandosova
Fifth Advisor
nicole killian
Abstract
On the other side of the coast, a hand is waiting. On the other side of the shore, someone is waiting for you to come. This space between you and them is an asymptote. The more you wait, the colder the pan is to the hand. But the salt of the sea will cover and warm your hand. There’s much to play with while you wait. The destination is only a promise, a figure disillusioned. Waiting spaces are enchantingly altering
in their premise. A bureaucratic fantasy with no avail and no ending. Systematically accumulated levels of power and control lies within a — post post-soviet reality that a home is actively surrounded by. In this case, to share a moment is to take it back. To diffuse a residue until it’s spread out thin.
At this moment, this document’s purpose is to explore a two year conversation with objects, spaces, people, emotions, places, and memories. Through alternating collections of images, writings and extracurriculars, a waiting room is slowly built in this duration. With or without another person, these two books are to be simultaneously read with its pair. Apart but always linked. Always holding. There is no specific order.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-9-2025
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