Year
1992
Degree Name
Doctor of Creative Arts
Department
School of Creative Arts
Recommended Citation
Storey, John David, Journals of a stranger: documents of a life, Doctor of Creative Arts thesis, School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 1992. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/952
Abstract
journals of a stranger: documents of a life, is a fictional diary of an unknown and unnamed person. The work is a discontinuous, dual narrative. Within its six parts the reader is given clues and insights to the nature of the diarist.
The work is primarily concerned to investigate the notion of a 'life'. Specifically, the ways in which such a metaphor is expressed both visually, and within written text. The significant areas explored-visual and written expressions of intimacy, representations of gender, the renderings of landscape and the use of journey as theme-are the vantage points from which this 'life' is viewed. It is axiomatic that on each viewing the nuance will have changed.
journals of a stranger is a work that draws on the disciplines of writing and photography. A central aspect of the work is the interplay of image with text. In that sense, the work uses an interdisciplinary structure, exploring the tensions, and/or relatedness, of sequences of images interspersed with a fragmented, fictional text.
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.