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Communion

dc.contributor.authorWinans, Benjamin Caleb
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-15T18:56:12Z
dc.date.available2023-06-15T18:56:12Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/177023
dc.description.abstractCommunion presents sculptures and installation work made from re- purposed, destroyed, and corrupted church pews, and remade Amer- ican and Christian flags in a chapel-like gallery with audio, video, and photographic documentation to expose relationships between the pa- triotic, sacred, and often violent power structures in American political culture and Christianity. These broader themes are examined through my own personal past, growing up in southern evangelical Christianity, which I offer to the viewer as an intimate record of embodied moments. Through the work, a methodology of deconstruction is proposed: one that asks to test our most deeply held beliefs and in the potential ruin, to discover the beauty and empathy exposed through doubt.
dc.subjectChristianity
dc.subjectChristian nationalism
dc.subjectdeconstruction
dc.subjectembodiment
dc.subjectfaith
dc.subjectfine art
dc.subjecticonoclasm
dc.subjectprocess
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjectsculpture
dc.titleCommunion
dc.typeThesis
dc.description.thesisdegreenameMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
dc.description.thesisdegreedisciplineMaster of Fine Arts
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantorUniversity of Michigan
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelArt and Design
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelArts
dc.contributor.affiliationumPenny W. Stamps School of Art and Design
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arbor
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/177023/1/Winans-Benjamin-Stamps-MFA-2021.pdf
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.7302/7757
dc.working.doi10.7302/7757en
dc.owningcollnameDissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's)


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