Another moment to live

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dc.contributor.author	Le, Nam
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-19T21:19:07Z
dc.date.available	2012-09-19T21:19:07Z
dc.date.issued	2011-04-05
dc.identifier.uri	http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=urcaf&p=/2011/2011Abstracts/
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/5313
dc.description	Second place winner of oral presentations in the Exhibition/Performance section at the 11th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum (URCAF) held at the Rhatigan Student Center , Wichita State University, April 5, 2011	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Mother Nature brought Life to Earth. However, we tend to appreciate living creatures over once-to-be-alive ones. In particular, we don’t usually consider a dead tree an aesthetical symbol. After the tree dies, its body would just stand there, waiting to be rotted. We forgot about the fact that the tree has engraved its spirit into the body: when a wooden log is cut open, beautiful wood grain will reveal itself to life again. Although life has departed, it doesn’t take away the tree’s underlying beauty. I want to explore this beauty by incorporating it into my work. Using woodworking techniques, I can alternate different woods into new forms and thus giving them a chance to be alive again. They gain the ability to show the breath of life through either geometric or organic figures. With the new forms, these dead parts of Nature would gain more appreciation from us, the people who live upon the benefits of them.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Faculty Sponsor: Barry Badgett; Office of Research Administration, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Fine Arts, University Libraries, Emory Lindquist Honors Program	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Wichita State University	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	URCAF;
dc.relation.ispartofseries	v.11;
dc.title	Another moment to live	en_US
dc.type	Abstract	en_US