Abilities of Beauty
| dc.contributor | Ishii, Sara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Werchan, Hannah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-19T15:10:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-19T15:10:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | Creative Arts and Research Symposium | |
| dc.description | Creative Arts and Research Symposium | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | My process of meticulously handcrafted realism drawings and the context of being a young disabled woman examines the ability to find empowerment in oneself through beauty. Philosopher Denis Dutton describes beauty as a characteristic of Darwinian theory and a tool of survival. Through my self portraiture series, Abilities of Beauty, I’m focusing on the different versions of oneself and using beauty as a coping mechanism and means of survival to find empowerment in life’s circumstances. I explore ideas of using beauty, vanity, and materiality to build self empowerment and how the dichotomy related to me as an artist living with disabilities being able to use a laborious process to create a beautiful product can evoke feelings of empowerment. The goal of this project is to explore the ways we describe, interpret, and execute beauty and additionally drawn to such things. | |
| dc.description.department | Visual Arts | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11274/12754 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.title | Abilities of Beauty | en_US |
| dc.type | Presentation | en_US |
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