Waves

Waves is the supporting document to the Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition of the same title. Exhibited March 7-12 2010 in the Art and Design Gallery at the University of Kansas, Waves was comprised of a series of mixed media drawings. The drawings were an investigation of the microscopic and macroscopic in nature, ranging from molecules and cellular structures to constellations and galaxies. I developed a cohesive vocabulary of simple marks and integrated a range of subtle materials in order to discover their visual potential and power. Through the act of drawing I imagined many perspectives by which we can contemplate the visible and seemingly invisible in the world

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6 x8 etchinghttps://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_libsartf06/1016/thumbnail.jp

Effect of model to mimic ratio on predation of the model phenotype.

Batesian mimicry is one of many methods prey species have evolved to increase their fitness. This type of mimmicry occurs when a palatable organism mimics the physical appearance of an unpalatable model organism. The effectiveness of mimicry may depend on the amount of models relative to the amount of mimics. To test the effect of model to mimic ratio on predation of the model phenotype, we presented palatable and unpalatable white lardworms at differing ratios to foraging birds. We found a nonlinear relationship between the percent predation on white lardworms and the model to mimic ratio. If the success of mimicry depends on the model to mimic ratio, this may contribute to greater understanding of the stability of mimicry systems.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/54654/1/3094.pdfDescription of 3094.pdf : Access restricted to on-site users at the U-M Biological Station

Representing theater: text and performance in kabuki and bunraku

Since the fourteenth century, theater has been at the center of cultural life in Japan to an extent rare in the world. several Japanese theatrical traditions, noh, kyogen, bunraku, and kabuki, continue to the present as living lineages of actors passing on their skills from generation to generation, actors have maintained control over the interpretations of texts on the stage. kabuki and bunraku differ fundamentally in their origins and essence. Joruri was the inheritor of the long oral storytelling tradition of blind musicians that flourished after the Genji civil war. During the time of the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon, who wrote for both the bunraku and kabuki stages, it became standard to publish complete bunraku texts at the time of first performance with the name of the playwright as author. The theater was a vibrant aspect and stimulant of cultural life in the Edo period, one in which individuals from all walks of life participated through a variety of means