Date of Award
5-10-2026
Date Published
June 2026
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Studio Arts
Advisor(s)
Peter Beasecker
Keywords
Collage;Fragmentation;Memory;Obscurity;Psychological space;Screenprinting
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts
Abstract
Sophia Hashemi’s work examines collage and screenprinting as methods for navigating uncertainty, memory, and the shifting architecture of the self. Her practice engages making as a negotiation between control and surrender, where meaning emerges through attention to instability rather than resolution. Drawing from Dada photomontage, German Expressionism, and film noir, alongside frameworks such as Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism and Michel Foucault’s Power/Knowledge, she explores disruption as a psychological and structural strategy in works that move between visibility and concealment, past and present, intuition and construction. Hashemi positions art-making as a cyclical practice where fragmentation reconstructs memory and multiplies the self through engagement with the unknown.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Hashemi, Sophia, "Everything Waits in the Dark: The Silence Had a Pulse and It Was Mine" (2026). Theses - ALL. 1013.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/1013
