UC Riverside

The original title for this thesis was ‘the Art of Being a God in the Universe’. The topic wanted to understand the removal of gods and deities in art from current visual representations. The work believed that the artist has taken these spiritual beings out of the frame and folded them into their persona. The defined persona in ‘the Art of Being a God in the Universe’ was not a selfless one and harshly denounced it in three sections. The prologue, ‘I’ for Thirteen Pages— In Exchange for all Other Words, and the epilogue all explored the ego. Together the three chapters fully accused artists of believing themselves to be godlike. The observation made in the writing was that, in their belief of high being, the artist commands the subjective outlining of their reality and within this construction get lost in it. These are conversations to be had.