Metamorphosis-Metaphysics-Physics Eden Moreno Course: Senior Thesis Project, Photography B.F.A. Professor: Ashley Gerst Student: Eden Moreno Essay: Metamorphosis-Metaphysics-Physics
Assignment: For this assignment, students were asked to complete a research paper for their B.F.A. Senior Thesis Project course. In addition to the research paper, students
completed a visual arts based thesis in the medium of their choice (Eden’s is Photography).
Introduction
moments versus the premeditated ones. There can be a main focus or area of what kind of work chosen to be made but it all has to do with your history and what you desire to see out into the world. This intent drives the artist to create connections from the unconscious to the conscious and manages to bond the elements of a piece. Influences from your community to personal experiences affect an artist’s work consciously or subconsciously.
A “The id, ego, and superego are Freud’s representation of the three structures of the mind. The id is the primal urges, primitive needs, and uncivilized passion we are born with. The superego is the ‘moral’ part of the mind that internalizes and embodies parental and societal values. The ego is the mediator between the two that attempts to balance primitive drives and socialized morality.” (O’Leary, 2007). Artists work with all of the three structures of the mind. Photography is a mainly instinctual medium to work with. Plans can be made as much as possible with sets, makeup, and posing the model but the main drive of the work comes from capturing the right moment that encapsulates the prime moment in which everything works symbiotically. Even subconsciously, choices will be made based on life experiences and exposure by other media as well. However, it is the conscious choices that become the perfect balance between the intuitive
B “‘ A Poet’s Ontological Metamorphosis in Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and “The Poet’ Though Emerson makes no mention of the word “metamorphosis” within “Self-Reliance,” from “SelfReliance” to “The Poet” he makes subtle syntactic transformations that announce his inquiry into the state of the human. The less-common definition of metamorphosis must be considered here; otherwise, Emerson’s syntactic shift will not clearly exhibit the relationship of the two lectures. The Oxford English 9
