Thesis

Here lies the completion of my masters program at Texas Tech University
- First is video from my thesis lecture
- Second is my written thesis
- Third is pictures of my thesis exhibition
- Last is acknowledgements of the businesses and people that helped me accomplish this exhibition

Thesis Lecture

Written Thesis

This is the PDF version, however the actual layout is different when put into book form. Sadly the PDF I have of my book is too large of file to link here...

Photos of my thesis exhibition

Artist Statement

Manufactured Scapes are metaphors of environments that have been altered by large-scale human activity, that are manufactured from man-made materials, and explore the absurdity of humankind's wastefulness. The Installation before you illustrates a tiny fragment of a hyperobject. Hyperobjects are things that have become massively distributed over time and space in relation to humans and human life cycles. One example of this is a product of expressly human manufacture like EPS (aka styrofoam) that will outlive humans by 500 – 1000 years.

Materials

1.6 tons of densified expanded polystyrene foam (EPS) aka (Styrofoam) Collected from 5 businesses and consumers here in Lubbock, Processed through Recycle Tech XT-200E Densifying Machine, 2021