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Dreams Ashore

Alyss Munson

Undergraduate

This is a collection of works reflecting my stories in my own surrealist style and language. My work plays with the ideas of the human body and experience through time and technology, while being grounded in speaking through bodies of water and marine life systems. This exhibition focuses on my personal experiences with objectification and religious trauma, translated through my studies in oceanography and morphed into artworks through mediums that have rich histories. Painting, weaving, and printmaking all are very old practices that humans have been creating with for centuries, much like patriarchy and religion that has been passed down. Oil painting as we know it today with paint tubes and thinners is a relatively new medium in relation to the entirety of human history. The lithographic technique of printing was created just two hundred years ago, and revolutionized print as a technology. Weaving, one of the oldest methods of making at some 20,000 years old, can now be done entirely assisted by computer programming. I wanted to play up how these practices, objects, and traditions exist in the modern technological world, and where I fall into that puzzle.

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