Thesis
You are the Only Sentence I Cannot Throw Away
Washington State University
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
01/2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000004469
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/125296
Abstract
You Are the Only Sentence I Cannot Throw Away is a multimedia representation of mysterious drawings and writings and pixelated Korean words and text fragments. The texts and images used are the extracts from personal collections of notes, letters, and a sketchbook. My consciousness is documented, then translated into a fabric scroll print, a looping video, and a zine with each media representing pieces of myself, not unlike a self-portrait. Each work reflects on the thoughts, feelings, and memories of an immigrant or a non-native speaker navigating a new place. The illegibility of these pixelated texts and images touch upon feelings of linguistic alienation, confusion, and turmoil that non-native speakers experience. The act of pixelating and abstracting tackles the concept of expected assimilation predicated on one’s fading former cultural identity; but also speaks of and for the remaining identity with a desire of holding on with colors, patterns, shapes, and the movements.
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Details
- Title
- You are the Only Sentence I Cannot Throw Away
- Creators
- Seo Ryung Samantha Park
- Contributors
- Michael J Holloman (Advisor)Kevin J Haas (Committee Member)David Janssen (Committee Member)Kristin C Becker (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Fine Arts, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 30
- Identifiers
- 99900882026601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis