ScholarWolf
Welcome to ScholarWolf, the institutional repository for the University of Nevada, Reno. Managed by the University Libraries, ScholarWolf is an open access database and the home of scholarly works by University members, including the electronic theses and dissertations of our graduate students, journal articles, conference presentations, and more.
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Item Implementing High RAP Asphalt Mixtures: A Staged Approach(5/19/2025)This document provides information to facilitate better understanding of how to effectively use asphalt mixtures with varying levels of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP). It highlights key practices employed by several State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) to achieve engineering, economic and environmental benefits when using high RAP mixtures. Additionally, it presents a staged approach based on the identified key practices and strategies for reliably increasing RAP content.Item after/image/light/search(4/11/2025)after/image/light/search combines painting, poetry, and letterpress printing as an imperfectly unified system of symbolic communication. This body of work is concerned with the changing state of artist identity in the information age, exploring my everyday experience of an effable ocean of imagery and echoing the complexity of political, social, and personal change. Reflecting upon the way that mass image consumption complicates our understanding and attention to meaning, after/image/light/search translates small observations and ideas through paint, print, and projection. This visual miasma becomes a stand-in for ever-present political, cultural, and environmental issues that is true-to-life: without clarity, certainty or conclusions. The resulting thesis utilizes material experimentation and formal tools of layering, enjambment, and rendering to search for new insights and understandings of the visual culture in which we live.Item Reoccurring Altar(5/16/2026)When developing a chronic illness at my young age, my spirit was shaken. I fell into a depression as I could not use my hands, walk, or go through life like a healthy human or as an artist. When I discovered Cyanotyping, I had been at my lowest, and the beautiful Prussian blue that was developed from chemicals using the sun changed my perspective on what constitutes art. The stains put on canvas and paper would deepen if not rinsed, and you could see brush strokes left behind from the human hand that could not be changed. Within this discovery, I formed a new body of work in which I used the same medical tools and items I use for self-care to keep me functioning and healthy. Rumination and medical uncertainty can lead to magnifying anxieties. This body of work was an exploration of faith in medicine and how I connect using life-saving objects to create a sense of spirituality, necessity, and hope, while it also relies on consumerism and waste of plastic and materials. Through this process-based body of work, I focused more on routines and found that within chaos, the act of routine art-making can bring forth a new sense of religion in the self. Within this newfound sense of art making and loosening of rules set by my old self, who perfected portraits, I now find agency in the act of making and using materiality to find refuge in this chaotic world.Item Capsule Toy Rain Cloud(5/5/2025)My show deliberately blurs the physical and digital, Incorporating a life size 3d printed figure and immersive audio. These plastic materials are the center, creating the "digital grotesque," incorporating 3D printing failures "spaghetti."Item Fragile Flesh(5/1/2025)Fragile Flesh explores the body, and more specifically a dissected view of flesh and bodily anatomy as a lens through which we can begin to view the complexity of our existence as a beautiful yet uncanny collection of organic systems that we inhabit. Moving throughout the world, developing personalities, identities, and experiences. Fragile Flesh looks at the unique structures of the biological forms that we are made up of in order the rewild the body, the flesh. Imagining it not as an identifiable human; made up of concrete parts like arms, legs, hands, a face, etc., but one that strips us down to our basic animality and biology. Making us uncanny, fascinating, and unknown once again. In the thesis exhibition, Fragile Flesh, human biology is taken and blended with aspects of the natural world to more easily understand the parallels that we share between ourselves, and other organisms. The ways in which our structures may be similar, our behaviors, and our place within the natural order. Through historical and contemporary examples as well as personal artwork references Fragile Flesh demonstrates how art can be a tool to grapple with our biological reality. The fragility and beauty of the flesh that we inhabit, the complexities contained within our skin, and our interconnectedness with the natural world. Visualized through a material-based practice that explores the potential of ceramic, fiber, and other natural mediums.
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