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This investigation attempts to consider the identity of the contemporary Bergsonian philosophy of immanence by reflection on key conceptualisations from the work of Henri Bergson. From the view that thinking Bergsonian is an attitude of philosophy that anticipates the metaphysic…

Borders: Separation, Detention, and Dehumanization is an exhibition that calls attention to the worsening situation at the southern border. The show is composed of large paintings and drawings, depicting scenes of either separation or detention, and an element of human suffering…

The following dissertation, Alternative Abstractions: Art and Science in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles investigates how the histories of astronomy and modern physics impacted the production of abstract artwork in Southern California. In the artistic practices of Helen Lundeberg,…

In this series of work entitled hoodies. I am examining the definition of portraiture. It is a reductive process in which I question what elements of a portrait I am willing to let go of. The answer comes as a form of abstraction–abstracting the recognizable human form, the envi…

My concept of poetic abstraction combines Sijo (a distinctive Korean poem format), the Korean traditional color schemes of Oh Bang Saeg and Oh Gan Saeg, and the concept of Han (the Korean interpretation of a historically particular, innate bittersweet sorrow emotion). To better …

The medieval development of the Augustinian doctrine of divine illumination, that God must illuminate the human mind in order to know certain intelligibles, has been heavily-studied by historians. Much of this literature follows older historiographical approaches separating the …