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Spying On Life Itself, Lutèce Louise Gault

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Location: Paris, France 8th arrondissement on the fourth and top floor of an apartment building in a room facing the adjacent building and the courtyard.

Through my tall, classic Parisian windows, I watched my neighbor sit at his dining room table every morning. In the afternoon, his housekeeper took out the trash. He and his wife drank St. Pellegrino at most meals. At night, they sat down with one warm lamp on, illuminating only their left and right shoulders and the corresponding sides of their faces. Sometimes, as a break from my homework, I would pull away from my desk …

With The Cold Of Sunshine, Riley Julianna Truchel

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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

I Femminiellə: Unearthing Sanctified Queerness, Francesca Stone Houran

Senior Projects Spring 2023

This project serves as an unearthing, in the figuratively archeological sense, of the religious roots and foundations of queerness, often overlooked in contemporary gender discourses, through the exposing of pre and post-modern queer religious iconography specific to the Neapolitan third-gender community of the femminiellə. Although the femmininellə have origins in a long lineage of non-binary forms and figures throughout global and Italian history, they have been more recently brought to the surface of gender discourses through the avenue of photography, showcased in digital and physical exhibition spaces.

C.A.P.S., Sydney Merritt-Brown

Senior Projects Spring 2023

This project focuses on representing three generations of Caribbean women through the lens of beauty and hair care. Together, we collaborate to document our hair stories, a vessel to reclaim our identity, nationhood, and culture. Through this lens, we authentically re-envision ourselves as we move towards becoming the faces of a new generation while simultaneously honoring the past through how memory is in the fabric of our clothes, the recipes we consume, and the hair that we care for, style, and protect within the Caribbean Archive.

See How Man Was Made, Lilian C. Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2023

First there was Chaos, the gaping abyss. From Chaos came the Earth and soon after darkness and Night, from which came Day and Light. To be her husband, Earth created Sky. They made many children together, the Nymphs of the hills, the Hekatonkheires, the Cyclops, and the Titans. When Earth and Sky’s youngest Titan son Cronus overthrew his father, he castrated him, sending bits of the sky into the sea where Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty was born. Cronus ruled until he himself was overthrown by his own youngest son, Zeus.

See How Man Is Made is a project …

Relative Scrap, Harmony Olivier Baker

Senior Projects Spring 2023

I’ve foregone putting out a more formal artists’ statement in fear that anything static might self-sabotage; I’d rather not over-inform an approach to this project by applying my single interpretation and excluding however much more I’m not considering, or worse yet, instruct you in what this project and the works present mean to one person. Rather, I’d encourage you to take it as your own experience and look for what interests or sticks out to you! That said, if you would like to know a little more, through my process and godly vision, seek me out!

Work Present:

8623 Faces …