Thesis [Bête Noire]

My bfa thesis project, entitled Bête Noire, was a series of wooden dioramas backlit with LEDs and mounted on the gallery wall. I conceptualized, designed, illustrated, printed, constructed, and wired each of the nine sections under the approval of the art and design faculty at the University of Notre Dame. Each box represents a different genre of fiction and is a piece of a larger image of a skull, representing the omniscent presence of reality against an environment of fantasy. 2008.

Wooden pieces for the installation were cut out by Dragonfire Laser of Fort Wayne, IN.

This project won the 2008 Radwan and Allan Riley Prize in Studio Art.

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