Campbell, Ashley2024-06-142024-06-142024https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2951426 page document, 9 minute 24 second videoMy artistic practice is rooted in process-based research, manifesting as a type of pastiche—an interdisciplinary collage of video, sculpture, and sound performance. I'm interested in how seemingly disparate things come together and form meaning. There are overarching themes, but I am not attempting to provide a straightforward answer within the work. Instead, I strive for it to be skewed, off, strange, otherworldly. I rely on spontaneity and experimentation, beginning my work in a predominantly formal manner—responding and reacting rather than planning and organizing. By remaining open to circumstance, instinct, and impulse, I find that ideas coalesce and form around objects and materials. I’m always observing. I look for my own “glove, pollen, rat, cap, stick” moments out in the world and in the studio. I collect these things through photographing, 3-D scanning, recording video, etc. Gathering and arranging becomes an almost streamof- consciousness-like endeavor, bringing a piece into being. This approach allows me to engage critically and conceptually along the way. Processes and ideas form an interwoven structure, each relying on the other to expand the possibilities and potential meaning of the work. Everything is trash, and everything is treasure. There are no horizon lines, and hierarchies disappear, oozing, bleeding, blending, shimmering, sparkling. This is the ethos of my terminal creative project and encompasses my work as a whole. The forms in this project take shape via video and sculpture. My work is an ever-evolving continuum. Each piece opens the door for the next, and they are an interconnected train of thought.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-UStrash culturetrash as treasureexpanded imagetechnodiversityartificial intelligenceTerminal Project