Making Space for Daydreams

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dc.contributor.authorFinney, Trevor G.en
dc.contributor.committeechairDuer, Zachary Raymonden
dc.contributor.committeememberBlanchard, Samuel Paulen
dc.contributor.committeememberRonan, Anne Elizabethen
dc.contributor.committeememberDee, Meaghan Anneen
dc.contributor.departmentArt and Art Historyen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-29T09:00:11Zen
dc.date.available2025-01-29T09:00:11Zen
dc.date.issued2025-01-28en
dc.description.abstractI describe and reflect on the creation of my exhibition Making Space for Daydreams, containing two large sculptures and a collection of conversational audio recordings. The sculptural artworks utilize interdisciplinary techniques and both digital fabrication and handcrafted approaches, including: woodworking, hand-cut paper, laser-cut illustration, motion capture, projection mapping and pencil drawings. The exhibition explores themes related to daydreaming, and the value of recognizing and building spaces that help make daydreaming possible. In addition, the work explores presence, memory, and inner child relationships as way to understand and frame my own relationship to daydreaming. By engaging in an act of imaginative play, I collaborated with my inner child and benefited from a strengthened sense of self-identity. Through acts of obscuring in the artwork I create allowances for imagination and invite the viewer to reflect on their own experiences and daydreams.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralI describe and reflect on the creation of my exhibition Making Space for Daydreams, containing two large sculptures and a collection of conversational audio recordings. The exhibition explores themes related to daydreaming and the value of recognizing and building spaces that help make daydreaming possible. By engaging in an act of imaginative play, I collaborated with my inner child and benefited from a strengthened sense of self-identity.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Fine Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:42258en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/124423en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectarten
dc.subjectchildhooden
dc.subjectcreative technologiesen
dc.subjectdaydreamsen
dc.subjectillustrationen
dc.subjectinner childen
dc.subjectmotion captureen
dc.subjectpresenceen
dc.subjectprojectionen
dc.subjectsculptureen
dc.titleMaking Space for Daydreamsen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineCreative Technologiesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Artsen

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