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EVENT

Lets start here and now.

No matter how insignificant it may be, this moment has found you at a specific crossroads between time and space as you read the words on this page.  All points from this intersection are weaved together and pulled through the eye of your perspective.  Voilà!  We have an event.  Events can be experienced on a personal level as well as shared with thousands of people.  Perspective is a key ingredient, and the same event can be pivotal to one person and unnoticed by another.

Within the confines of this website, you will find a web of interrelated documented events, both minor and major, all underneath the cumulative umbrella of an MFA thesis experience at RIT.  Late nights in the studio, committee meetings, work edits, model-making, site planning, gallery prep, and thesis installations all lead up to a final opening.  This show was a requirement shared across all the various programs in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, from Medical Illustration to Woodworking and Furniture Design.  Three separate shows were created to accommodate the group, each spanning two weeks. 

My thesis follows all thirty MFA students, including myself, through the three group thesis shows in the Bevier Gallery; each a culmination of two years of study and experience in the form of an event.

I made a Facebook page of the opening to let people know about the event, as did other artists (Amy Vena, Yu Fen Kung, Jinhee Park) with whom I shared the stage that evening.  Viewing some of these pages together provides a wonderful window into the inner-workings of how perspective shapes an event.  All of us experienced the same event very differently, shared the event with different people, and even used different languages to describe our experiences.  Yet the time and place was the same on all of the invitations, and we practically stood side by side throughout the length of the show. 

In a similar way, the entire process of constructing our theses reflected the same kind of interdependent relationship.  Each project was shaped through dialoge and constructive feedback from many perspectives.  Many of us shared classes together, studio space, thesis committee members, inspirations, aspirations, and daily interactions.