Browsing by Author "Riede, Danielle"

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    A Cataclysmorphic Prophecy
    (2021-05) Moore, Alex; Potter, William; Riede, Danielle; Winship, Andrew
    Our bodies and minds are incessantly morphing, driven by environmental stimuli. You could reduce the entire experience of being alive to simply being fluid and responsive. In considering the significance of this morphability, we should also consider the significance of “place”. This relationship with place is rooted in ecology, the branch of biology which deals with living things and their relationships with their physical surroundings. In my body of work I examine my own relationship with place, its effects on my identity, and my ability to morph.
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    Entering the Door
    (2018) Simon, Johnson; Riede, Danielle; Jacobson, Marc; Winship, Andrew
    How do physical limitations affect the mind, and how can you overcome them? Imagine one day you wake up bound by physical limitations. What can you do? My research helps someone realize that having limitations isn’t the end of the world.I myself have restrictions, yet I am defying the odds.My art became integral to helping me overcome limitations; because of this, my thesis research educates others on the reality of living with limitations by helping them connect with their own struggles.
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    The Land of Milk and Honey
    (2021-05) Roberts, Jessica 'Leia'; Misluk, Eileen; Petranek, Stefan; Riede, Danielle
    My body of work serves as a form of therapy for me and provides insight into the often-misunderstood world of mental illnesses. A personal struggle is with Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders [OSFED] has informed the pieces discussed below. OSFED is the term utilized to include individuals who do not meet the strict guidelines for anorexia or bulimia nervosa but still have a substantial eating disorder (“Other Specified Feeding”). With this in mind, my practice explores a personal experience with eating disorders. Eating disorders are medically recognized mental disorders and have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness. National surveys estimate that 12% of women and 6% of men in America will develop an eating disorder within their lifetime (“What Are Eating”). It should be recognized that eating disorders can affect anyone, at any age. As an artist, I strive to make work that provides the viewer with a deeper understanding of the mind of someone with an eating disorder.
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    Searching for the Sublime
    (2017) Sneath, Jake; Petranek, Stefan; Riede, Danielle; Kinsmann, Robert; Martinkus, Benjamin
    Photography is dead and that’s okay. Photography has always had a rather anxious relationship to the world due to its connection to both the commercial and fine art worlds; the latter with greater suspect and criticism, as suggested in Matthew Thompson’s “The Object Lost and Found." The digital technology revolution has permanently altered photography from its analogue past. No longer do professionals need to arduously fine tune the physical print for accurate color balance, optimal sharpness, etc.; the digital camera has finally, and unequivocally, perfected the image and made photography more accessible than ever before. A 2015 study by the Pew Research Group estimates that 64% of all adult Americans own a smartphone with the ability to take photos and videos; an estimated 159,670,545 adult Americans based on July 2016 Census Bureau data. Recent social media startup, Instagram, has a reported daily user base of 300 million global users as of November 2016. The social media app alone is responsible for an 4estimated 80 million photos shared per day. A large degree of the work posted to sites like Instagram are representational in nature; depicting everyday situations. A recent report estimates that 1.2 trillion photos will be taken worldwide in 2017; a number that will continue to grow by 9% annually. Charlotte Cotton describes in her essay, “Photography is Magic” how recent changes in photography have provided an opportunity for artists to make work that reference both photography’s analogue past as well as its current place in contemporary culture. My work responds to the engulfment of representational imagery by creating opportunities to immerse the viewer in repeated sensations of beauty and the sublime. In this document, I will cover the evolution of my work from abstract, camera-based photographs through analogue, camera-less photographic processes, to installation work that invites viewers to contemplate and experience the awesome beauty of light directly.
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    Sugar Works: An Artistic Exploration of Diabetes
    (2019) Jandernoa, Andrea; Riede, Danielle
    My visual work articulates the complexity of chronic illness by exploring personal implications of medical treatment. I manipulate sugar in ways that reflect my own experiences as a diabetic. Using sugar allows me to situate social, emotional and sensory experiences within an organic material that changes over time. I use sugar in forms that are vulnerable to the environment and ultimately deteriorate. This fragility and slow-motion-loss embody the emotional consequences of treating diabetes and evoke common experiences of unpredictability and hyper-vigilance. From this studio practice I designed an arts-based research study to teach sugar pulling to diabetic patients. This study supports participants as they develop the language and metaphors needed to articulate their social and emotional experiences. By emphasizing patient perspectives this study contributes to the understanding of patient compliance, self-care and diabetes support. Both my visual work and this study leverage the material properties of sugar to enable meaning-making and increase visibility for the social and emotional aspects of living with diabetes. Through experiencing my work in these two forms, I hope viewers will find a neutral space to contemplate the contradiction and uncertainty that often emerges alongside chronic illness.