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Drawing Machines: Lovers of Today

Drawing Machine Attempt 1 This was the beginning of my journey. I started off by creating the base with the dining hall’s plastic cups with sticks. I taped the cups to stabilize the base and put a mini ketchup cup…

Diary Forms: Evidence of Life

I’ve always been drawn to the idea of documenting daily life- feelings, phases, friends, hobbies, places, food, fashion, slang, humor, and the specific culture that exists within it all. I love the idea of keeping a written diary, but I’ve…

Diary Forms: Veiled, Whorled

My conference work this semester was an experiment in depicting my difficulties with intrusive thoughts. To catalog this diary form, I began by noting every intrusive thought I experienced on Sarah Lawrence’s campus for a month. I put them all…

Diary Forms: A Dollhouse Is Not A Home

Throughout our second exploration of diary form, I was interested in taking on abstraction in a way that differed drastically from my first work. I knew I wanted to talk about the intricacies of hierarchically understanding independence and interdependence and…

Diary Forms: Take Out Your Trash

Over the past semester(Spring 2023), I began to collect as many items from the trash I produce as I could salvage, until I was able to construct this giant pile of it. Rising out of it is a snake, made…

Diary Forms: Lizbeth’s Breakfast Buffet Featuring The ‘On the Go’ Special 

Lizbeth’s breakfast buffet is an installation that highlights my On the Go experience with eating breakfast. Food I ate On the Go (left side): Tamales (Tiny tamales inside the tamale cart), Classic “It’s our pleasure to serve you” NYC cup,…

Diary Forms: 15 Years

Before returning to school for spring semester this year, I spent my time converting 15-year-old home movies to my computer. I knew that these videos would come in handy for this course since my favorite works of art focus on…

Diary Forms: Dirty Laundry

Dirty Laundry is an installation consisting of three main parts: a photo wall primarily detailing damage done to the skin of my chest from the use of trans tape (which I am unfortunately allergic to); a clothesline made of leftover…

Diary Forms: Making Up Data

For our first exploration of diary as an art form, I chose to record all of the makeup I wore for a week. My method for recording this data was characterized by a chart I made wherein I charted the…

Diary Forms: Slug and Goliath

My trash monster was created with only gut feelings. I went into the creation with specific aspects already established (the spiked tea bag weapon, the long, hammerhead-esque beer can head, and the belt of wrappers) but with no experience in…

Diary Forms: Daily Achievements

My project started off as a simple series of pictures taken by me or ones I found that I thought were representative of me, along with a few short sentences describing things about myself that I wanted to share. My…

Drawing Machines: Vibrational Art

My motivation for creating this machine originated from when I first took this speaker apart to repair it. Since I was already comfortable working with this machine I was interested to see if I could do anything further. Once I…

Diary Forms: Painting Clarity

If you see a lightbulb, what do you think of it? An idea? Light? Me too. To me, lightbulbs symbolize two things, vision and mindset. Lightbulbs are a globe-like object that produces light, thus giving you clear vision as it…

Diary Forms: Community Garden

Community Garden is a miniature garden made from collected trash/unwanted objects. I wanted to collect something from my friends, and the easiest way to do that was to ask if they had anything on their persons that they didn’t want…

Diary Forms: The Fight to Focus

My project is in the form of audio recordings on a computer played out loud on speakers. There are three separate audio recordings of me reading passages from three Jewish novels and one article on community psychology with the choruses…

Diary Forms: What to Watch

I created a DVD player, TV, and remote using foam, push pins, a silver paint marker, string, and construction paper. Initially, my project was a disc ladder showcasing the discs designed to depict the movie without giving away the title….

Art from Code: View Through a Train Window

This piece is my venture into the more digital side of art by learning the mechanisms and language of processing while weaving together a narrative that takes you on a journey through multiple different landscapes. When continuing to work on…

Art From Code: Choo Choo In the Snow

My Sidescroller of a train really helped open a path to get to my goals. I decided early this year I wanted to try and become a game dev, and while I had done some other interactives, this was one…

Art From Code: Hearth and Heart

The inspiration of this piece comes from a meme.  It is a picture of a man who has put several tuba parts on various limbs, and is posing like a knight. This meme spawned various tracks which combined the Tuba,…

Cultural Hijack: Recollective Prospectus

The Reccolective Prospectus for West Austin Park is a proposed approach to the improvement and maintenance of the park located at 1317 West 10th street in Austin, Texas, 78704. The document outlines a prospectus centered around preserving the cultural memory…