Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Francis J. Noel IIISugarman, Matthew Lamoureux2015-05-092015-05-091983https://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/3931The overall idea/theme in my art is that of the search through imagery for the ways that consciousness works in the world, and beyond that, to discover what the true nature(s) of consciousness is and/or are. I often feel intuitively, as a momentary revelation, that the true nature of consciousness is that of one universal consciousness bonding man, nature, and even all matter together in some way. The connection to universal awareness is not the experience of my own consciousness in everyday life, but a missing link to be found hidden somewhere within myself and probably this missing link can be found in my own perception which is changeable. I find that through working in art one can probe different ways of perceiving, doing, experiencing, and discovering different states of awareness, including intuitive states of being in a now space, between past and future.enLithographyPaintingConsciousnessPerceptionThesisCopyright 1983 by Matthew Lamoureux Sugarman