Abstract

This English Independent Study is a writing and art collection about the moments in which bones as fundamental, yet invisible structures have made themselves visible throughout my life and what that has illuminated for me. Through bones, this project explores the ways in which unique, individual structures are intrinsically linked to each other to create particular functioning wholes, and what happens when those individual structures or links change; what happens to us or shifts inside of us when the fundamental wholes we often take for granted are suddenly not what they used to be. Under this umbrella topic, my Independent Study uses poems, essays, stories, and drawings to explore the intersections and separations between subtopics of human-human and human-nonhuman relationships, mental and physical health, movement and freedom, the environment as we can understand it, conservation, food, communication and storytelling, internal thoughts and feelings, gender – really, what it means to be a college student living in the Midwest or even, more broadly, what it means to be a human being living in our own individual worlds while also moving around this larger, shared world.

Advisor

Kang, Christopher

Department

English

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities

Publication Date

2025

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis

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