Defense Date
2026
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Painting and Printmaking
First Advisor
Hilary Wilder
Second Advisor
Holly Morrison
Third Advisor
Jacob Broussard
Abstract
This thesis is a body of paintings and two poetic fragments. Shaped by distance and displacement, the work finds its ground in the tension between the desire to be free from the past and heal, and longing for home and connection. Painting practice becomes an event of contact with what is lost, or unclear, or in the process of becoming through accumulating layers, marks, erasures, and traces of the process of its making.
Rights
© Daša Kulikova
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-4-2026
Included in
Art Practice Commons, Painting Commons, Poetry Commons, Printmaking Commons