Date of Award
5-12-2024
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Illustration
Advisor(s)
Marty Blake
Keywords
Absurdity;Illustration;Insecurity
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts
Abstract
This thesis aims to examine the root causes of human insecurity and to explore how to live with insecurity, both theoretically and visually. The nature of insecurity is further explored by analyzing it in a philosophical sense and making an analogy with Albert Camus’ understanding of “absurdity.” As a universal feeling, insecurity has enormous potential to be explored as an artistic topic. Creating and thinking from this feeling can trigger the audience’s emotional resonance and inspire more thinking in response. Insecurity is about meaning, about human longing and expectation, about the absurdity that one cannot escape. By analyzing insecurity, one can face it, understand it, accept it, and then live peacefully with it in a world full of uncertainty.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Wang, Chenyu, "FRIGHTENED BIRDS: AN EXPLORATION OF INSECURITY AND ITS ARTISTIC EXPRESSION" (2024). Theses - ALL. 835.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/835
