Date of Award
Spring 5-16-2019
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art
Degree Type
Thesis
Abstract
Short stories are an indirect way of creating a truth by showing instead of telling. They are a way to observe and communicate a single idea. A short story for me is a vehicle for hiding my truth behind a character, exploring myself in the safety of an identity that is not my own. When I read Chunky in Heat, author A.M. Homes and I hide together behind her character, Cheryl, and find solidarity.
The following writings, paintings, and sculptures are collaborations between myself and the women of short story fiction. Those women being the authors, the subjects, and the readers. Each character provides a different understanding of myself and my work. These characters are helping me to collaborate alongside the many real women with whom I can identify in an effort to put a name to an idea that remains heavily undefined.
I cannot tell you what this undefined Thing is. I can only show you using short stories as way to indirectly tell the truth.
Language
English (en)
Program Director
Patricia Olynyk
Program Director's Department
Graduate School of Art
Thesis Advisor
Buzz Spector
Studio/Primary Advisor
Lisa Bulawsky
Studio/Primary Advisor
Heather Bennett
Committee Member
Lindsey Stouffer
Committee Member
Lindsey Stouffer
Recommended Citation
Lebo, Rachel, "For Cheryl: The Long And The Short Of It" (2019). Graduate School of Art Theses. ETD 124. https://doi.org/10.7936/fqga-gj47.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/samfox_art_etds/124
Included in
Architecture Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Fiction Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, Painting Commons, Sculpture Commons
Artist's Statement
www.rachellebo.com
Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/fqga-gj47