Gianjara's Ribs: The Ecosystem, Body, Animalia, and Politic

Author

Linus Gomez Ellis, Portland State UniversityFollow

First Advisor

Erik Geschke

Date of Award

6-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Art Practice and University Honors

Department

Art + Design

Language

English

Subjects

Anthopology, portraiture, science fiction, costume, painting, narrative

DOI

10.15760/honors.1728

Abstract

This work is a series of four six foot tall full-body portraits of people, which are displayed alongside an actual, physical item or garment present in the associated painting. The purpose of this is to blur the line between the fiction of the individuals depicted and the viewer. By creating "portals" through which to view them as equals in stature, Linus Gomez Ellis is taking something that can be seen in the ecosystem of this fiction and making it into an objective reality. The most enduring, well preserved, and eternal pieces of history and anthropology are tall tales. This ecosystem, taking place in a society built on the fossilized body of an ancient colossal organism, is a rumination on symbiosis, the natural world, social class generated in response to natural resource extraction and the act of extraction itself. Before the modern age, there was less emphasis placed on the distinct line between fiction and science - the pursuit of truth was paramount, less so the pursuit of fact.

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/43835

Recommended Citation

Gomez Ellis, Linus, "Gianjara's Ribs: The Ecosystem, Body, Animalia, and Politic" (2025). University Honors Theses. Paper 1695.
https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.1728