“We fold memories of the dead into the space of the living. We embrace death, even while we turn away from it.” Deborah Wang’s thesis entitled Phantom Limb presents a series of encounters with death, and a reflection on loss, in photographs and sculptures. Her defence is on Monday March 23, 2015 at 3:00PM in room ARC 110.
As of June 24, 2014, Anna-Joy Veenstra’s completed thesis can be accessed here: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/8553. ABSTRACT by Anna-Joy Veenstra Currently, the spaces designated for death in the city of Toronto are separated from other programmes — in states that range from neglected, full, inactive or marginalized — while any new sites are pushed to the outskirts. The decrease in time provided to grieve and in places to face the mystery of death means Toronto residents are losing their connections to the sacred. The...