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Ice Cream Social, Caleb M. Wagner

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Collecting objects has always been a large part of my practice. The things I have accumulated have a history of touch: from the previous owner(s) and the touch of my own. I hold personal memories and relationships with the objects, and also acknowledge that there has been someone before me who has done the same. In this way, the object serves as a vessel of association. It possesses different relationships with each person or object they interact with.

Throughout my collection of two dimensional objects, I have gathered an extensive amount of old photographs. For the photographer and the people …

In The Shadows And Folds, Julia Mueller

Senior Projects Spring 2020

In the shadows and folds is the result of a mental scavenger hunt that I began this past year, to uncover myself and find what is hidden in my crevices. It was spurred by my fear of memory loss which had grown to such a size that it sat visible in the back of my mind unaddressed for some time. The reason for this fear is not large but it feels monumental. I have been existing in various states of sadness and disconnect, which have acted like a thick blanket over my mind. This blanket is simultaneously protective and damaging, …