Date of Award
Spring 5-22-2026
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Ryan Waller
Second Advisor
Anther Kiley
Abstract
At all scales of human history, there exists a record: The story of how things came to be. An infinity of interconnected traces that thread the intimate and the immense into a single fabric.
Beginning from distinct points of entry, Sites of Departure explores the axes of resolution and scale in documentation, asking what becomes visible when the instruments of the dominant record are set aside. Moving between recovery and confrontation, the work questions the structures that produce our understanding, while creating new documents for future interpretation—all against the reality that to make a claim, is to claim some truth.
Through the work, Sites of Departure gestures toward a practice engaged with its position, deliberate in its medium, and accountable to the histories it enters. Offered not as a conclusion, but as one side of an unfolding conversation, ready to sit down with the generations that follow.
Recommended Citation
Tomas, Kevin, "Sites of Departure" (2026). Masters Theses. 1638.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1638
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