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Burden, Alexa Michelle Wolf

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Burden

A Short Film by Alexa Wolf – Artist’s Statement

“So many winters, hundreds and hundreds of winters, and a gray man…walking from settlement to settlement…staring in through windows at the firelight and a joy and a burning life he would never be able to touch, never even be able to feel…”

- American Gods by Neil Gaiman

It is humbling to remember the beginning. A vague memory of a subplot in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods, with no clear reason as to why it chose that moment, almost precisely a year ago, to return to my conscious thoughts. …

Time, Distance, And Epic Memory In The Tempest, Andrew Nathan Kaplan

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Corporeality, Sophia Rose Klafter

Senior Projects Spring 2013

I have my mother’s light eyes, my great grandmother’s round nose, and my grandfather’s gift of gab. From my father, I have inherited the rare neuromuscular disorder, Charcot Marie Tooth disease, which he was born with.

Because of this, I have had to view things other people took for granted from a different perspective. Since childhood, I have had to be sharply observant of my surroundings—details such as little grooves in the pavement or uneven brick on the sidewalk could make the difference between a pleasant outing and a catastrophic fall.

This need to develop an acute awareness of my …

The Trickster Cycle, Rron Karahoda

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Pieces: Form And Ephemera, Louise Cooper Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2013

As with anybody, I am not a singular self but one constructed of ever-shifting parts. This constant state of flux is expressed in the play of paint and canvas, lending the act a seriousness wherein images and ideas emerge and co-exist. I do not know what will happen in advance and finish at the same speed that I start so that there is no precious moment. The object is always in a state of transformation. A story or specific narrative is secondary to the need to leave a trace. At times, the image is completely external from me. My work …

Life In Samsara: Torment, Torture And Tolerance In Buddhist Hell, Maya Shari Maclaughlin

Senior Projects Spring 2013

This project is about Buddhist hell. It discusses time, location and the community in hell through images and text.

Sleep Frequency, Rebecca M. Wagner

Senior Projects Fall 2013

I have three main interests as a sound artist. They are 1) field recordings 2) the physics of a sound wave and 3) how sound resonates within, around, by, and through us. My library of sounds is comprised entirely on my own field recordings, collected since I was 13 from several countries. Although my first recordings were captured long before I had ever heard the term musique concrete, I consider myself a contemporary musique concrete artist, making electronic music composed of natural sounds, altered, edited, or distorted, then translated to the ears through creative means.

In my moderation show …

Suffering For Salvation: Nikolai Klyuev's Poetics Of Brotherhood And Deliverance, Michael Victor Gluck

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Finding The Intrepid, Eve Swords Alpert

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Finding the Intrepid

Presented here are territories designed for leisure and enjoyment, the transient occupants thereof, and my attempts to understand what draws the two together. From a certain distance, recreational areas appear to take on religious connotations. Disney World, the Lincoln Memorial, and Niagara Falls are sites of pilgrimage for millions every year. Travelers hope to transcend the everyday. In a world of uncertainties, where one is alternately plagued by rapid changes and dreary repetition, pilgrimages offer a glimpse of the eternal.

A tear shed at a boy-band concert resembles a divine encounter. Coins dropped into the Lost River …

Ecce Homo: Fully Loaded, Wyatt Anthony Bertz

Senior Projects Spring 2013

After spending the year writing terribly boring shit about classic cars, I began writing this piece on April 20th thanks to the inspiration of Marina van Zuylen.