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    Phenomenal tense : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Fine Art at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2018) Carleton, Chora Luz
    This exegesis attends to the conceptual and practical enquiries adjoining the perceptual and phenomenological concerns of colour, space, moment, language and light. By dwelling in the interface of experience as a spatial, temporal, sensory experience, my creative practice aims to create a dialogue between the intuitive knowing of sensation and the constructions of these qualities as descriptions within the language of watercolour painting and the language of the written word. In this exchange of ideas, my practical methodology moves between using material in two dimensions to render a description, rendering the space as a moment of its own description, and pulling forth the intangible description of language into describing itself within space. Enacting a moment held in reflection by a simple shift in tense. The possibilities of colour, materiality, language, duration, dimension and tense unveil through affordances how these elements might come forth to a viewer to attending to a live exchange of phenomenal occurrences.
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    The gardens' eyes : an alternative guidance system : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2018) Xie, Alexandra Yuchen
    The ancient gardens of Suzhou in the Jiangnan region of China are mysterious and time-honored. Many visitors to these ancient gardens, in particular overseas visitors, want to understand and explore them more deeply. They also want to view them in a simple way (Song, 2015). This thesis project aims to enable this through an informed symbolic visual guidance system. The system is both material and symbolic. The visual guidance system design integrates the culturally symbolic and spatial meaning of the leak windows of four famous Suzhou classical gardens as well as the visual effect, aesthetic, functional value of those leak windows. In the thesis project, I investigate how the essence of four of the classical Suzhou gardens can be communicated through symbolic graphic design, materiality and spatial installation. In it, I aim to convey the history and cultural values contained in these different period gardens by combining visual effects, aesthetic and functional values. This design exploration takes the form of a unique artwork composed of patterns, symbols and shapes that combine to convey each garden’s historical value and cultural heritage through modern expression. The symbolic shapes, material form, and images specific to each garden are then synthesized into a visual guidance system at the center of which is the leak window.
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    Framing traces : exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2018) Sharples, Monique
    Framing Traces explores the way in which the physical object of the picture frame, in combination with site, becomes an object through which an individual could experience the past. This is achieved by playing with the relationship and balance between presence and absence. Visual cues from site, geographical location and the picture frame itself form conditions for viewer reflections. These are what make up the conditions of engagement. As the viewer selects, analyses and categorises aspects of these cues in the context of their own experiences, biases and emotions they are able to attach an idiomatic meaning to the picture frame. Through the writing component, the analysis of picture frames is located within a material culture framework. The personal and cultural layering within one's own interpretation and the coexistence of the two alongside place creation is considered in the authorship of the work.
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    Sight unsound : an enquiry into our relationship with our perceived reality : an exegesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2013) Chubb, Jessica
    There is an overwhelming potential for letting the mind flood with what is, as opposed to what is visible. This research investigates that space: those points where our engineering sees no purpose in telling us what’s there: speaking to our senses’ perimeter of visibility. This thesis is an in depth questioning of; the nature of seeing and its fragile relationship to the external world; the position photography plays in aiding and extending corporeal vision; and an experimentation with the photograph’s function as an instrument of critique on perception. The questions asked within this work also offer grounds for reflexivity and consideration of our sensitive interaction with the world.