COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
UnFrame: Relationship
Creator:
Zhu, Man
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Photography
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Photography
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
UnFrame: Relationship is a body of photo-based works through which I explore my relationships with the people around me. In my prior work, I combined seemingly unrelated elements through different dimensions in the same work to link reality and the spiritual world. I continue to consider these combinations along with my family, the environment I grew up in, the things I have experienced, and the people I have loved. All of these things can shape a person’s character, define their relationships with others, and reflect their subconscious perceptions of those relationships. My creative process draws on the principles of semiotics, finding representative elements of my different subjects, referencing aspects of each subject’s past, and integrating them with self-portraiture. Due to the unpredictability of using expired film, the final images and initial ideas are not often not the same. This phenomenon can be mapped to the expectation and reality of human relationships.
Key Words: Relationship, Semiotic, Family, Collaboration, Glitch, Collage, Year, Self-expression, Serendipity, Intimate.
Key Words: Relationship, Semiotic, Family, Collaboration, Glitch, Collage, Year, Self-expression, Serendipity, Intimate.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2021-11
Format:
1 online resource: 1 PDF (Thesis, 42 pages, color illustrations)