The University of Maine at Augusta is proud to present the 2023 UMA Senior Thesis Exhibition: Ouroboros and Ostinato featuring student artists Tayla Knapp and Courtney Harmon. The  exhibition explores the processes of the body and the mind in both  psychological and physical processes of change. Knapp’s portion of the  exhibition, Ouroboros, centers metamorphosis through fluent line that bridges anatomical studies with graphic storytelling, while Harmon’s Ostinato translates the creative influence of music on the mind and psyche into  three-dimensional paintings that bridge musical and visual experience  through form and metaphor.

Ouroboros and Ostinato’s  subjects and forms reflect circular themes of music and the body.  Knapp’s work addresses the outward surreal metamorphosis of the body  through life to death, while Harmon’s opens onto the creative interior  workings of the mind during embodied experiences of music. Knapp’s  graphic and illustrative approach, and Harmon’s circular canvases and  multimedia 3D sculptural elements play on the beauty in the sometimes  macabre or imperfect cycles that, in the space of the gallery, open onto  the nearly limitless creative possibilities through which our bodies  and minds circulate.