WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Winter 2002

SHOCK ART

Poems

Ode Beauty is true pain — and all this you need to know: that fading as the day, that fading as the sun, truth foretells its death in telling, beauty at the winning, having won. The Children's Choir Does Karaoke God Rap and claps out of time, swaying awkwardly, chanting incomprehensibly. If I didn't know better, I'd swear it was Latin. Perhaps it was an over-developed sense of humiliation that drove me from it early, the side-effect of the scrutiny of being younge...

Untitled

UNTITLED Textured vase, 2002 10" x 6" x 28" Esau Adrian Freeman WSU student Esau Freeman's approach to art could be described as loose. "A lot of the work I do has very little direction at the start," he says. "The evolution of the work is a product of the thought and circumstances that occur during the formation process. I think every creation should be its own unique entity, and I won't make the same thing twice." After graduating from high scho...

Third Phase

"THIRD PHASE" Acrylic, collage, crayon, objects on panel, 2002 24" x 31.5" x .75" Marc Bosworth '92 Marc Bosworth came to WSU to study printmaking. Active in showing his work around the region, this co-founder of the Famous Dead Artists also had eight of his collage paintings included in a July 2002 exhibition of new and emerging artists at Seattle's D'Adamo/Woltz Gallery. "My work," he explains, "deals primarily with ideas about gender r...