Date of Submission

Fall 2024

Academic Program

Studio Arts

Project Advisor 1

Lisa Sanditz

Project Advisor 2

Laleh Khorramian

Abstract/Artist's Statement

Utilizing the materiality of multimedia and layered imagery, Cherry Blossoms at Night

relates historical subject matters of displacement, war, and occupation and juxtaposes these images with their contemporary reproductions through commodification, erasure, or misrepresentation. The language of painting and color emphasizes the delicious aestheticism of a constructed surface, both the surface of a canvas and the representation of media, history, personal or state-sanctioned suffering, and the manipulation embedded into these likenesses. These relationships are focused on questions of intersectionality and the absurdities of living under social systems that value the nation-state as a form of identity. These identities are morphed and conflated through their representations in media, confusing the personal with the historical —ultimately forming a space of depictions layering time, propaganda, commercial media, and personal experience.

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