What's On Your Mind?
Level of Education of Students Involved
Undergraduate
Faculty Sponsor
Sarah Jantzi
College
College of Arts & Sciences (CAS)
Discipline(s)
Visual Arts
Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Symposium Date
Spring 4-24-2025
Abstract
How does your mind and body connect? Do your actions and thought process reflect each other? How often does your body and mind agree with each other? What’s on your mind? is a series of 4 oil paintings on smaller scale canvases. The main theme of the series is to show that the human mind can vastly differ from the presentation of the body. The series contains different poses with different inanimate objects as heads to show how stagnant the body is compared to the mind. My inspiration for this is my own transition and how I think about identity. Pretty much nothing about my body is correspondent to how I imagine myself to be, which is where the disconnect comes from. With this body of work, I hope to get people thinking about just how much they connect with themselves and their body compared to the connection they have with their own mind.
Recommended Citation
Bradley, Jay, "What's On Your Mind?" (2025). Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 1421.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/cus/1421
Biographical Information about Author(s)
Jay Bradley is a Senior Creative Writing Major who wants to show that other forms of media can tell a story and shape a persons identity without the use of words. Painting is a particularly tedious medium that can express many emotions and thoughts.