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In the field of developmental psychology, mindfulness, or the state of present awareness, has shown promising results in enhancing self-regulation abilities in children in classroom settings. Such findings may suggest particular benefits to children…

In this thesis, I explore material and conceptual conversations between the physical and the mystical, the seen and unseen, the visible and not. I outline personal embodied experiences with religious practices and within sacred spaces as a grounding…

This paper examines the experience of lucid dreaming both from my own perspective and that of others, as well as the theoretical, psychological and artistic aspects of this phenomenon. I discuss destabilizing factors in lucid dreaming: a term used…

My heritage is glued to colour palette, which is layered underneath historical and contemporary painting influences. In an attempt to answer these questions, I begin to peel back layers of personal history and the physical layers of each painting,…

My impetus as an artist is to promote a sense of nature connectedness in the public consciousness, with the understanding that this leads to more pro-environmental attitudes. I gain insights from Indigenous ecological perspectives, the science of…

My practice interrogates the space between an object and its ecology: the relationship between material practice and complex systems, such as living ecosystems, and the environments in which they are situated. My main interest is our current…

This research addresses the affects experienced by most people in response to the current climate crisis. Research in the fields of psychology and human behaviour have termed the negative-value emotion “climate-anxiety.” My research inquires into…

Music has been a lifelong hobby of mine. I've been interested in creating my own original music for a long time but was always scared that my songs will be trash. I finally took the leap in 2017 and published my first song. It's only been…

Identisploitation explores charged representations of identity in pop culture through painted paper figures, video art, and garments. The complicated public images of historical figures, including the iconic Black performer, Josephine Baker, are…

How do images and diagrams inform cultural identity and the navigation of social space? This is a core question motivating my art practice. To produce my artwork, I glean images and texts from magazine collections, which I deconstruct and…

The following essay includes information that surrounds my investigations into the human desire to invest in objects. This writing accompanies questions concerning systems built for, by, and with things, as well as the possibilities of breaching…

Through painting, I rely on non-visual sensory information recorded in the woods to inform aesthetic decisions. Research happens in the act of painting. All visual and written references inform the collection of source material, but research happens…

I’m Crystal Chen, I usually go by Coco and I’m a 14 year old student that currently attends moscrop secondary school. I’ve always really enjoyed songwriting and I’ve been playing the piano since I was 4.

This thesis document outlines the key concepts and research practices I undertook to explore the aesthetics of mediating digital and analog logics through materiality and painterly abstraction. It culminated in a body of work of 8 paintings and a…

This thesis explores how the movement, presentation and interaction of the body are learned through one’s identifier; gender, culture, nationality, race, religion, and social class. Expected norms to one’s mannerisms and way of being in the world is…

This thesis explores the fluidity of language through the fusion of heterogenous visual traditions — creating hybrid forms and coded communication. It voyages through the linguistic landscape of India. Delving into its social, political and cultural…

February 25, 1949, The Commodore, 9pm - 1:30 am.

I make intimate scale objects that encourage audience interaction through their mobile devices, or small to larger scale works utilizing phenomenological engagement with projections, or mirrors. My research is focused on the Anthropocene, our…

Sound is a prominent feature of our urban environment, affecting us in many ways. Studies show that sound levels in cities are increasing every year. Considering the fact that our well-being is closely related to everyday sound, there is an apparent…

Threads Entwined, Stories Unfolded, Futures Imagined is a thesis project which begins to unravel narratives of becoming, personhood and the radicality of imagination that Punjabi Sikh women, in my life, have cultivated. I bring forward and explore…

Screen-based digital experience design is blooming among the local businesses in Metro Vancouver along with the increased pervasiveness of information technologies, new digital products in contemporary society. However, there are significantly fewer…

This project was done with a kindergarten class (ages 5-6) at Lord Strathcona Elementary, in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Strathcona in Vancouver BC. This was my son’s class and he assisted with making the sample I based the project from.…