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Work Title: Cute Red Disasters Describe your object: This is a scan of a book of Goya prints, a Japanese postcard, two kinds of bubble wrap, a lip liner, a pencil, two one dollar bills, and two plastic babies. The…

Describe the object On my 16th birthday my mom and step-dad got me this cool set of wireless headphones that had my name printed on them. I immediately asked my mom if she could help me choose a case for…

DESCRIBE THESE OBJECTS: The light and the dark talk playfully with each other. DESCRIBE YOUR MOTIVATION IN CREATING THESE OBJECTS: A lot of my motivation came from wanting to create unfamiliar patterns out of familiar materials, both physical and digital….

My conference project is a photo series of personal memories, looking at what causes the anxiety-inducing changes that make me who I am today. My series is comprised of photos collected from the digital photo albums across my family members’…

This project is a compilation of comics, and each comic explores a different aspect of life living within a state of paranoia. This paranoia centers around heart health but appears in a variety of ways, from a fear of heart…

I think about the world ending every day. This project was born out of the necessity to get my paranoia out there into something tangible which could be the start of making it more manageable, or at least more understandable….

This piece was created using string, wire, plastic garden fencing, cellophane, glue, sticks, the photo editing software Pixlr, and some old photographs that contain fond memories.  I was born on and have grown up on a planet that is slowly…

This assemblage was inspired by the personal anxiety of being overworked and the constant struggle to find a balance of work and play and, though hard to reach, having goals in sight. Starting fresh at a new college for the…

This conference project started as a standalone sound piece, which was meant to be an ambient loop of sound that evoked a sensation of everyday paranoia and anxiety. The sound part of this piece is a four minute loop that…

This diagram piece is based on the classic conspiracy board look, with newsprint cutouts, written notes, photographic evidence, and connecting threads. The newsprint serves as a background for the photos, which are attached to the board with glue, with red…

The Paranews Network is true to its name in every sense of the word – as a parody of professional news stations on tv, as a vessel for paranoia/conspiracy, and a way of drawing parallels between previously unrelated elements. Using…

For my conference project, I wanted to explore the themes of paranoia, cult, and narcissism, all informed by Sarah Lawrence unique population, philosophy, location, and history of cult-like behavior. The uncanniness of these aspects of the campus sent me towards…

I was initially drawn to the Paranoia as a System course because of Angela’s introduction video. It was a collage of anti-ideological paranoid thinkers from various places in the political spectrum, all of whom have found a voice on the…

The Curator is a multimedia piece developed entirely from found objects. The piece shows the  artist’s inability to determine their own success, something that only the curator can control. Furthermore, The Curator illustrates the way success of artists is often…

This piece was created by Evan Ridgway and Simon Diesenhaus. There is no doubt that conspiracy is mainstream. As artists, our shared interest in the vortex of social media and celebrity drew us together in search of a conspiracy of…

I decided to take a pair of jeans made by the popular streetwear brand Supreme and place found garments on it to create a patchwork style on the jeans. Supreme was founded in 1994 and has been one of the…

Upon deciding what conspiaracy to research I thought what is an intertangled web of identity? The answer of course to me was obvious, the elusive Qanon. This secret figure is the force behind fantastic ideologies, theories, and beliefs with motives…

This piece was created by Ainsley Wilkinson and Anna Wright. The materials for this piece included nothing but a large piece of paper, black and red ball point pens, rulers and templates.  When looking for conspiracy in the world around…

In searching for a way to ward off darkness instantly my mind went to home. A safe shelter filled with comfort and familiarity that is always there to go back to at the end of the day. Home is the…