Collection: Thesis - MA Fine Arts

This research paper attempts to explore and question desire and obsession for luxury goods, specially branded bags in contemporary material culture. At the same time, it discusses about the changing notion of luxury – from a craft to a commoditized industry – and the relationship between desire a...

Spiritual icons and landscapes have always intrigued me, how a space or object may be sacred to one while meaningless to another. Throughout our history, the need and yearn for a sense of security from sacred objects, icons, texts and ideological landscapes have not diminished even in the current...

To modulate is to regulate, adjust or adapt to a desired degree. For an appropriate analogy, modulating a form in a painting would be akin to tweaking a knob on a synthesizer to vary or distort the pitch and intensity of a note. This thesis enables the understanding of how paintings can be repres...

This thesis will attempt to make a survey of my personal experience and development working in performance art. In doing so I would also like to go over my motivations and encounters of working in performance art and discuss the various issues of performance art as a fine art practice and medium....