Year 1

This is the parent category of all courses taken in year 1.

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Int. Studio 2: Bridge 3

Our Bridge 3 assignment was to make a book concerning our topics from our Integrative Seminar class. My topic is the relationship of repressed homosexuality and violence through the lens of the case of Jeffrey Dahmer. Anyway, here’s a dump of pictures, and one video as a bonus.

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Int. Seminar 1: Bridge 4

For our project, we decided to separately visit Chinatown several times, record our thoughts and experiences in several different ways, and then bring them all together in a video format. The video itself is a visual haiku: 5 visuals layered on top of each other, with 7 layers of sounds playing simultaneously.

“The video attempts to encapsulate the insanity of Chinatown. It puts the viewer in a strangely relatable state of mind through an abstract layering of media. Our group found a very diverse set of sounds and visuals on independent and group excursions to the area. When examining the recorded sound files on their own, it seems that they are not particular unique–As if they could have been recorded anywhere in Manhattan. Creating a conglomerate of sounds distinguishes it and makes it feel like you spent a whole day in Chinatown.”

Unfortunately, because I am bad at remembering things, I was not able to share  my 3 haiku on Google Docs to make it time for Rory to put it in the video. However, I have them NOW:

plastic in the sea

low-hanging telephone wires

clearing all our throats

 

break open all the

fire hydrants so the kids may

dance under the sun

 

nineteen eighty-three

i better be quiet now

nineteen sixty-nine

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Int. Seminar 1: Writing Sample

My “work” (and I use that word sparingly) focuses mostly on things that are sort of hard to talk about. This is not to say that I’m dedicated to discussing what society tries to keep under wraps; I feel as though there are enough writers in the world who are far better than me who incorporate their work around “unmentionables.” I don’t feel as though rehashing played out things is helpful, which could also be another theme that my work tries to face: trying to find an alternate interpretation to potentially taboo topics. By doing so, I believe that I am trying to search for an explanation to these issues, or at least some kind of closure.

Translating these ideas to visual art is typically pretty natural for me. I feel like my art sort of exudes a sense of crippling insecurity, which is fine. I’m not sure I would like it if it wasn’t painfully self-aware. Perhaps an inability to take myself seriously is the main thing that guides me in creation. In the future, I can only hope that I will continue to be able to bullshit my way through most things. That’s half a joke. The other half is mostly true.

1. “Mountain Din” AKA Bridge #1: Download

          “I rise out of the beanbag and sail back to dollhouse. I push Lexi Cederholm out of the way, squat in my dress, and pee on the dollhouse.”

2. “Untitled” AKA One Memory Assignment: Download

“I asked him what it was. He told me that it was a Japanese sword called a Katana. I asked him why he had a Japanese sword called a Katana. He ignored my question and stated simply that he not only had one Japanese sword called a Katana, he had four. “

3. “Palm Reader” AKA I Remember Assignment: Download

“I remember them drowning cats in buckets of water.”

4. “Number 4” AKA Word Prompts (Beauty/Mercy/Dream/Public): Download

” She steps forwards, arms crossed. Closed. “Maybe that was out of line,” she starts, slowly closing the gap between us in my kitchen. No, I say. We can’t, I say. I dodge the rising hand she tries to touch the side of my face with.”