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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7743-5019
Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2021
Month Degree Awarded
May
Abstract
As I encounter life during a global pandemic, caused by a virus that has us all homebound, I continue my own struggle with a different virus that keeps me not only homebound, but bed bound as well. In this thesis project, I make my way around and through the questions of chronic illness, self-worth, productivity and a changing relationship to time that arise in this dual viral experience - situating the personal within a larger social/political context.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/23107962.0
First Advisor
Susan Jahoda
Second Advisor
Shona Macdonald
Third Advisor
Kimberlee Pérez
Fourth Advisor
Juana Valdés
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Recommended Citation
Cope, Richenda, "Accumulations of (Not) Doing" (2021). Masters Theses. 1041.
https://doi.org/10.7275/23107962.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1041
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