- Title: Subtitle
- Discordant constellations: unifying randomness & found narratives in the creative process
- Creators
- Sara Rieger
- Contributors
- Sara Langworthy (Advisor)Julia Leonard (Committee Member)Corey Creekmur (Committee Member)Emily Martin (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Book Arts
- Date degree season
- Spring 2022
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.006388
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- ix, 49 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2022 Sara Rieger
- Language
- English
- Description illustrations
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-49).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
- This essay serves as an exploration on how we make meaning and why. The first part explores how I became a compulsive maker of meaning, how there are many methods of searching for meaning, and how interpretations and experiences of art can be multiple, opposite, and equally valid. The second part of this essay details an exercise in challenging meaning. Through incorporating significant elements of chance and randomness into my artistic and book-making process I ask whether someone can make or find meaning when I have intentionally tried to frustrate it. This process showed that readers and viewers make connections between image and text regardless of how chaotically they are combined. The third part of this essay discusses, tongue-in-cheek, some possible reasons for why meaning always seems to show up, including the physical, the esoteric, and the outlandish.
- Academic Unit
- Center for the Book
- Record Identifier
- 9984271053502771
Thesis
Discordant constellations: unifying randomness & found narratives in the creative process
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2022
DOI: 10.17077/etd.006388
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