Defense Date
2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Sculpture + Extended Media
First Advisor
Kendall Buster
Second Advisor
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Third Advisor
Corin Hewitt
Abstract
A desire path is a physical manifestation of where a system has failed, but also where it has been refused, where a new path has been made. The wake exists in the post, it is not a singular, untethered event, but a subtle double entendre that lives in the post-death, but also in the pre-life—not a liminal limbo, but a superposition of dying and waking.
This collection was assembled and composed over the course of two years as I navigated my practice, myself, and others. Present here are my thoughts, my experiences, and in many ways my beliefs. IN PRAISE OF DUST aims to generate a cosmology for my practice and work thus far. The form of this work, however, is neither art, per say, nor philosophy: it is study, it is practice, it is speculation.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
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Date of Submission
5-2-2025
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