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)
Joanna Spitzner
Keywords
effusivity;ineffability;paradox
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts
Abstract
Redefining mark-making as an active form of material signification has helped me understand my experience of the paradox of ineffability. This experience is as accurately described by the term effusivity as it is by ineffability, because it is not a matter of what cannot be expressed, but rather of what cannot not be expressed; of the experience that inescapably accompanies expression and signification. As our material means of expression and signification evolve digitally, the consequences of their contradictions become more discernible.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Berg, Theodore Xavier, "TALKING TO THE EYES: PARADOXES OF INEFFABILITY AND EFFUSIVITY IN MARK-MAKING" (2026). Theses - ALL. 1014.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/1014
