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Girls Don't Spit

Hirak , Bridget A

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2019, MFA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Art.
Memories become our greatest lies as scars become our greatest truths. Through an intense exploration of self and the growth from my journeys, this body of work explores the ways in which identity has been constructed from memory and scars. This formation of the work become the scars, the evidence of transcendence from the body into the soul. By a deconstruction of the narrative, the scars begin to mean something more than the mundane. Creation and destruction develop balance, as rivers carve deep into mountains, memories carve out identities to create lasting beautiful scars. The preservation of past memories last only for a moment which is already gone. The scars become the physical evidence of endurance, strength, and survival that should not be hidden or ashamed of.
Isabel Farnsworth (Committee Chair)
Davin Ebanks (Committee Member)
Janice Lessman-Moss (Committee Member)
Peter Johnson (Committee Member)
Eli Kessler (Committee Member)

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  • Hirak , B. A. (2019). Girls Don't Spit [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1574345142457711

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hirak , Bridget. Girls Don't Spit. 2019. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1574345142457711.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hirak , Bridget. "Girls Don't Spit." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1574345142457711

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)