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The writing presented in this paper attempts to break down the broad structures within which I exist. I would like to preface the document by stating that I see the writing and art presented in this paper as steps in a broader effort to gain agency…

In this thesis, I demonstrate how I map out my autobiographical experiences within my art practice to bring attention to the powerful capitalist and patriarchal structures that keep feminism, mental illness, and pain hidden. By using autotheory, I…

The instrumentalization of biometric data orchestrated through surveillance technologies can press today’s users of communication tools, devices, and platforms to opt out of such systems. This graduate research thesis aims to reveal the…

This thesis investigates the difficulties of reclamation and decolonization within the context of Hong Kong, recognizing the fluidity of how decolonization is defined, and the transitional nature of both people and place. Through printmaking and the…

Through the Master of Fine Arts program at Emily Carr University of Art + Design my work has focused on the mediated moving body as my research investigates the concept of embodiment for joy, self-awareness, and self-reflexivity. Art is an ideal…

This practice-based research addresses my crafts practice to redirect through design my professional activity as a woodworker and metalworker. The thesis documents and reflects on my work and findings over the course of a one-and-a-half-year process…

"Shelter in Paint: a portrait of an empty house" is an investigation into private space and private thought through the visual language of representational painting. Structured as though moving through the rooms of the house, this paper…

This thesis support paper is about the journey of my development in art and illustration during the MFA program. The paper includes an introduction of my identity and background that is influential to my artistic practice. The focus of my practice…

This thesis document outlines several bodies of work that exist along a continuum of ongoing material process. In thinking through different sets of work, I seek to find through lines and consider past ways of making and thinking. In so doing, I…

This thesis project is rooted in relationships─ the deep bonds which we share with one another, with our more-than-human kin, and our relationship with the abundant animate life that exists in the natural world. After losing several loved ones to…

Learning to See the Unknown: Drawing Out the Strange is a thesis project that takes a speculative approach to reflecting on subjective experiences of mental imagery, perception, and other neural phenomena. Entangled with ways of understanding from…

This paper outlines an emerging methodology that links separate art projects made in multiple locations. Accumulation (of both materials and experiences over time) combined with a process of interruption serve as a common line of enquiry that…

This project aims to gain an understanding of storytelling using a transmedia approach. Throughout the research, I explored how knowledge is generated using a multi-stage process that moves from poetry writing to tapestry weaving, and then to audio…

The horizon is a visual example of a distance that is physically unreachable. In this document, I define the horizon as both a metaphoric place where longing resides and also a physical site that can be seen. In other words, the horizon is an in-…

Informed by my personal experience with organized religion and conditioned ideologies, my photo-based practice aims to explore my position as a female photographer who contributes to the commodification and consumption of women’s images while also…

For We Are The Children of The Sun is a thesis project which aims to utilize abstraction and non-figuration as methods of representation for Black Women on Turtle Island. Through a personal contemplation of identity and ancestry, symbols such as…

This paper lays out the thinking process and decisions taken in an artistic methodology and an emerging thesis project. Here, imagination, reflection and projection are interpreted both as methods in looking and as inner spaces; they are ways to see…

What may seem like a fuzzy retreat from devastating personal, local, and global realities is in fact a tactile, humane action to seek alternatives. This thesis explores object-making in a world of hazardous objects and conditions, intertwining the…

This thesis outlines an exploration of the relationship between memory and architecture through the lens of technology. I discuss how memory and knowledge have become outsourced into computers and devices which can change our perception of reality,…

Utilizing a TRANSdisciplinary and iterative process, with a focus on collage and installation, I am investigating identity & Private spaces in relationship to the Public spaces of the Art Gallery & Internet. My thesis project, PLAY House (…

“How is the body a vessel for memory?” and “How do the stories we recall and recount create who we are?” These are the questions explored in this thesis through the lens of memory loss and family, alongside an analysis of the challenges of…

Valine, Ana. OCEANIC ALCHEMY: Collaborations and Surrenderings in Film Eco-Processing. Master of Fine Arts (Experimental Film), April, 2021, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC. My filmmaking practice has been centered around ocean…

This document incorporates the description of the theoretical and practical foundations of my research and studio practice. I have conducted excavations and inquiries about the injustices that occurred in the lower mainland of British Columbia…

The body of work presented within this document is wide-ranging, sometimes performative, material based or ephemeral. Although I discuss my use of traditional media like painting, drawing and video, I also describe how I expanded the very notion of…