<p> The 18th century poet and writer Samuel Johnson claimed, &ldquo;Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness.&rdquo; I have found this assertion to hold true. In one way or another, nature has always been an important part of my life. I am drawn to its intricacies and inherent complexities&mdash;characteristics that I both appreciate, but also struggle to understand. According to research, spending time in nature is psychologically important for humans, but today&rsquo;s technologically reliant society seems to be losing that connection. Even when we are &ldquo;in nature&rdquo; often times these places are merely an artificial representation, not truly natural. For instance, a park in the middle of a city serves as a contrived natural environment for the city&rsquo;s inhabitants, but, again, it is then constructed, not actually an organic experience. For me, nature is a place where one is surrounded by plants, land, and animals that still hold their unaltered characteristics&mdash;places that lack human culture and have been minimally interrupted by contemporary society. My work creates space for viewers to inhabit which mimics these natural environments synthetically.</p>

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<p> <i>Charting Memory, Bob Evans Snapshot,</i> and <i>Mapping Reality</i> began as a personal quest that evolved into an exploration of the relationship of time and space, through the photographic lens, and the relationship they have to memory.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-170).

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<p> This thesis compares the structures within industrial production, specifically related to time and the perception of it to the reciprocal resistances and responses within post-war art works. Specifically sound, its relationship to both the human quantification of labor and its exploitation in factory. Suggesting that these &ndash; the conditions of human work time &ndash; are the material by which artists who work with sound construct ulterior time frames either through processes ranging from deep listening the the co-productive activities surrounding electronic dance music.</p><p>

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