Appel, Jan

This thesis documents focuses on painting and mythology and how they investigate thematic questions regarding consciousness and existence. The study investigates how world building and the creation of fictional characters through the medium of paint can explore thoughts on mortality and impermanence. This paper examines painting’s materiality and process, while reflecting on contemporary painting as well as art history and its precedents. This dissertations goal is to explore the authors relationship with mortality, impermanence and what it means to live and have a human experience.