DOI

https://doi.org/10.25772/XQ48-RG15

Defense Date

2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts

Department

Sculpture + Extended Media

First Advisor

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

Second Advisor

Kendall Buster

Third Advisor

Lily Cox-Richard

Abstract

'Growth to beginning of gill formation.' explores constructions of knowledges by tracing Western music theory's dissonant wolf interval through non/chronological time. Sound waves are used to demonstrate an abiding material underlying collective value, and language, constructions. The thesis installation this text accompanies is addressed in four categories: translations of Hz to silent video; the language development stage of babble and image; tension and mediated patterns of the unheard, unseen, or unknown; and air pressure.

Brief asides from Gigi, the narrator of a video within the installation, interject. Here, she touches on enforced secrets, blacksmithing as a tool to question the fictive and non-fictive binary, extinction and cyclical time, and maintenance.

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Is Part Of

VCU University Archives

Is Part Of

VCU Theses and Dissertations

Date of Submission

5-9-2025

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