You will be with me in paradise

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Steisha I. Pintado (Creator)

Institution

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )

Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/

Advisor

Barbara Campbell Thomas

Abstract: This MFA thesis explores my personal experience of being born and raised in a fundamentalist religious cult, and the aftermath of leaving the cult. My practice is interdisciplinary, using drawing, painting, installation, and stop motion animation together to unfold a narrative of indoctrination and liberation. My work helps me confront the fact that I am an apostate, it helps me take back my power and my voice, and I want to use my voice to speak out against a system of oppression hiding in plain sight. I use this work to celebrate how I have forcefully taken the things that I had been denied since birth: an education, a career, a voice, a free life where two plus two always equals four.

You will be with me in paradise
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Publication

Thesis

Language: English

Date: 2023

Keywords

Cults, Installation, Jehovah's Witnesses, Painting, Paradise, Stop Motion Animation

Subjects

Ex-church members $x Jehovah's Witnesses

Religion in art

Mixed media (Art)

Multimedia (Art)

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