Browsing by Author "Morrison, David"

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    CONSIDER THIS MY THESIS
    (2010) Pazzol, Matthew; Morrison, David
    Life is often compared to a maze. Each decision is a path that leads to another path, towards some goal and, inevitably, an exit. But the puzzle of the maze is invented, and life is real. My art is the maze of how I see my own life's decisions map around me. It is presented as an entry into my own thoughts. It is offered as an exercise in sharing another's vision. If you take my hand and walk through it, you will experience how I choose one obstacle over the other. You can follow my steps and tread my course with me.
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    The Institute of Habits and Weirdness
    (2013-05) Senibaldi, Dominic; Morrison, David
    I draw inspiration from mundane activities such as shaving, shredding documents, waking up to an alarm clock and clipping fingernails. I use these activities as a springboard to explore the meaning behind habits. Are habits a human need? Do we place such importance on our daily repetitive activities that they become rituals? Do mundane activities help us to ignore the meaningless of existence, or give purpose to our existence? These are questions I actively attempt to answer with my art works.
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    intimid
    (2014-05) Wierzbicki, Liz; Morrison, David
    My work considers the variegated terrain of love’s complicated language. By shifting from physical to virtual, material to ephemeral through working in sculpture and video, I consider the physical and emotional qualities of love and desire. Through reflection on the impermanence of love, I explore feminine sensuality, attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, instability and endurance.
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    Morbid Tales
    (2011) Cazares, Carlos Torres; Morrison, David
    My oddball childhood led me to seek guidance in the weird and macabre. As a teenager I began ghost hunting in cemeteries and constructing haunted houses in my mom’s backyard for the kids in the neighborhood to experience. An obsessive and absorbing stage began to take place, which furthered into my adulthood. The creations I produce are direct extensions of personal memories intermixed with specific interests in sub-cultures. I reference traditional tattoo imagery, Historical printmaking techniques, Mexican-American heritage, Heavy metal music, Pagan symbolism and 1970’s and 1980’s horror films. I grew up having strange ideas about the world due to growing up in turmoil, which ultimately fueled my attitude to become an artist and tell my story.
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    Outcomes of Bilateral Cataract Surgery in Infants 7 to 24 Months of Age Using the Toddler Aphakia and Pseudophakia Treatment Study Registry
    (Elsevier, 2021-02) Bothun, Erick D.; Wilson, M. Edward; Vanderveen, Deborah K.; Plager, David A.; Freedman, Sharon F.; Trivedi, Rupal H.; Traboulsi, Elias I.; Anderson, Jill S.; Loh, Allison R.; Yen, Kimberly G.; Weil, Natalie C.; Morrison, David; Lambert, Scott R.; Ophthalmology, School of Medicine
    Purpose To evaluate outcomes of bilateral cataract surgery in children aged 7 to 24 months and compare rates of adverse events (AEs) with other Toddler Aphakia and Pseudophakia Study (TAPS) registry outcomes. Design Retrospective clinical study at 10 Infant Aphakia Treatment Study (IATS) sites. Statistical analyses comparing this cohort with previously reported TAPS registry cohorts. Participants Children enrolled in the TAPS registry between 2004 and 2010. Methods Children underwent bilateral cataract surgery with or without intraocular lens (IOL) placement at age 7 to 24 months with 5 years of postsurgical follow-up. Main Outcome Measures Visual acuity (VA), occurrence of strabismus, AEs, and reoperations. Results A total of 40 children (76 eyes) who underwent bilateral cataract surgery with primary posterior capsulectomy were identified with a median age at cataract surgery of 11 months (7–23); 68% received a primary IOL. Recurrent visual axis opacification (VAO) occurred in 7.5% and was associated only with the use of an IOL (odds ratio, 6.10; P = 0.005). Glaucoma suspect (GS) was diagnosed in 2.5%, but no child developed glaucoma. In this bilateral cohort, AEs (8/40, 20%), including glaucoma or GS and VAO, and reoperations occurred in a similar proportion to that of the published unilateral TAPS cohort. When analyzed with children aged 1 to 7 months at bilateral surgery, the incidence of AEs and glaucoma or GS correlated strongly with age at surgery (P = 0.011/0.004) and glaucoma correlated with microcornea (P = 0.040) but not with IOL insertion (P = 0.15). Conclusions Follow-up to age 5 years after bilateral cataract surgery in children aged 7 to 24 months reveals a low rate of VAO and very rare glaucoma or GS diagnosis compared with infants with cataracts operated at < 7 months of age despite primary IOL implantation in most children in the group aged 7 to 24 months. The use of an IOL increases the risk of VAO irrespective of age at surgery.
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    Outcomes of Bilateral Cataracts Removed in Infants 1 to 7 Months of Age Using the Toddler Aphakia and Pseudophakia Treatment Study Registry
    (Elsevier, 2020-04) Bothun, Erick D.; Wilson, M. Edward; Vanderveen, Deborah K.; Plager, David A.; Freedman, Sharon F.; Trivedi, Rupal H.; Traboulsi, Elias I.; Anderson, Jill S.; Loh, Allison R.; Yen, Kimberly G.; Weil, Natalie C.; Morrison, David; Lambert, Scott R.; Toddler Aphakia and Pseudophakia Study; Ophthalmology, School of Medicine
    Purpose To evaluate outcomes of bilateral cataract surgery in infants 1 to 7 months of age performed by Infant Aphakia Treatment Study (IATS) investigators during IATS recruitment and to compare them with IATS unilateral outcomes. Design Retrospective case series review at 10 IATS sites. Participants The Toddler Aphakia and Pseudophakia Study (TAPS) is a registry of children treated by surgeons who participated in the IATS. Methods Children underwent bilateral cataract surgery with or without intraocular lens (IOL) placement during IATS enrollment years 2004 through 2010. Main Outcome Measures Visual acuity (VA), strabismus, adverse events (AEs), and reoperations. Results One hundred seventy-eight eyes (96 children) were identified with a median age of 2.5 months (range, 1–7 months) at the time of cataract surgery. Forty-two eyes (24%) received primary IOL implantation. Median VA of the better-seeing eye at final study visit closest to 5 years of age with optotype VA testing was 0.35 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR; optotype equivalent, 20/45; range, 0.00–1.18 logMAR) in both aphakic and pseudophakic children. Corrected VA was excellent (<20/40) in 29% of better-seeing eyes, 15% of worse-seeing eyes. One percent showed poor acuity (≥20/200) in the better-seeing eye, 12% in the worse-seeing eye. Younger age at surgery and smaller (<9.5 mm) corneal diameter at surgery conferred an increased risk for glaucoma or glaucoma suspect designation (younger age: odds ratio [OR], 1.44; P = 0.037; and smaller cornea: OR, 3.95; P = 0.045). Adverse events also were associated with these 2 variables on multivariate analysis (younger age: OR, 1.36; P = 0.023; and smaller cornea: OR, 4.78; P = 0.057). Visual axis opacification was more common in pseudophakic (32%) than aphakic (8%) eyes (P = 0.009). Unplanned intraocular reoperation occurred in 28% of first enrolled eyes (including glaucoma surgery in 10%). Conclusions Visual acuity after bilateral cataract surgery in infants younger than 7 months is good, despite frequent systemic and ocular comorbidities. Although aphakia management did not affect VA outcome or AE incidence, IOL placement increased the risk of visual axis opacification. Adverse events and glaucoma correlated with a younger age at surgery and glaucoma correlated with the presence of microcornea.
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    Qualia
    (2010-07) Clune, Rebecca A.; Morrison, David; McDaniel, Craig; Agha, Anila; Jacobson, Marc
    When I look back at times that once were, and where I am today, I find one consistent factor. I have just as many questions today as I did back then. I do not remember my 9th birthday, I do not know the exact location I was on January 3rd, 1996, and what I was doing last Tuesday has already escaped me. These particular moments are ambiguous. The memories that find their way back into my present thoughts are for one reason or another particularly dignified. They find their way and have become the defining factors of how my character has come to be. So I ask myself, where do memories come from? How, or why do certain events remain in my thoughts while others slip away? What had happened in those lost moments? When we are forced to connect the dots of our past, one inevitable side affect occurs. We obtain a distorted version of the original moment, where the missing pieces must be filled in and translated. Qualia is a body of work I have created to present my journey. How we feel a memory certainly is unaccompanied by directions. These moments are filled with uncertainties to how, when, or why certain events took place. The work catalogs my curiosity of how our thoughts travel through the missing moments of life. It is within my recycled thoughts that I can examine the fragments, gaps, and transformations. Qualia, by definition, is being aware that we are having an experience, it is the acknowledgement of a sensation. I have created a body of work to explore the sensation of recalling memories. The mixed media exhibition brings to life my curiosity about memory and the search to understand it.
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    Tangible Memories
    (2017) Fields, Brandon; Morrison, David; Setser, Meredith; Winship, Andrew
    This composition recollects some of my youthful memories while also exploring the transitory state of life. On this journey, I unearth latent personal philosophies that have evolved and matured over time and still continue to do so. My artwork mirrors the texture of life by utilizing unique processes to navigate an empathetic exploration into my past. Rumination provides an unlikely perspective into its animal subjects, which were harvested during ritualistic practices of hunting. Seeking everlasting life in a fleeting world, my work suspends and preserves nostalgic moments from my past while using the universal language of death.
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    Transcendental
    (2012-05) Woolley, Robert; Morrison, David
    “The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.” (Pirsig, 247) The world comes to us though our senses. Sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste allow us to bridge the gap between the physical elements that exist in this universe. This physical interaction solidifies and confirms our reality. How do we know we are really ourselves and not some figment of our own imaginations? Quite simply, because we can see, hear, feel, etc.