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Erratic Space, Johan V. Orellana

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Orellana's vision in this work, Erratic Space, is to document life as an immigrant that exits in a country and society that attempts to maintain normalcy through the symbolic containment and erasure of marginalized groups and their narratives. He uses the relationship between the domestic and public spaces as a way to evoke an intimate, oneiric and, mutually, crude visual language that puts into context how these two environments intertwine.

Present, Elsewhere, Lauren Elizabeth Nelson

Senior Projects Spring 2020

As days elongate into immeasurable stretches, memory lurks closer to the surface of conscious thought. Vivid dreams overflow into waking hours, blurring the thin line between recollection and fantasy. From the area of my bedroom floor I record these memories, noting as I drift further from the present. Which moments demand my attention? Which challenge my perception of our current reality? Which bring me joy?

Present, Elsewhere is as much an exercise in grappling with our new parameters for living as it is a study in memory. In my drawings, as my title suggests, the figures are both present and …

The Hour Of The Wolf, Emily Louise Beresford

Senior Projects Spring 2018

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

the hour of the wolf

In these photographs I try to capture the sense of time moving and changing. I am interested in the way that light can change the way we see something. We are made vulnerable by what light reveals.

The photographs are about a specific time of day as well as time passing over a year. The interweaving of faces and landscapes reveals this progression of time during the days, the seasons, and the years through which each person has lived.

With time, light moves across …