1 Search is the ceaseless process of pursuing our place since the moment life began for us in complete darkness. Starting from the vast and vacant unknown, we are led to hold more and more awareness and understanding of the answers to “what are we doing here?” through the passage of time. It is the only methodology with which each of us go through the course of a life.
2 Settling is the strategy of adapting one’s position to cope with circumstances impossible to resolve. It is inherently unsettling to dwell in absurd existential conditions such as being “alive”, within a “body”, inside a “world” of “time” and “space”. In face of the oblivion we experience from the “World”, A settlement is where we go when we accept our impotence and their insolubility.
3 The thesis started with a sculpture made by decomposing and recomposing five pounds of beeswax. Elogated by gravity and rescued by frost and solidified by time, the material creates a messy image of layered landscape ressembling the perpetual formation of rocks.
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The methodology of this thesis is comparable to the stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Due to the reluctance to produce a deliberate topic or conclusion, my objectives only became clear as I exacavated my intuitions and chronicled my interior monologues. Neither its origin or end weighs more than the in-between.