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Popasolasonaser, Michael Angelo Dirosa

Senior Projects Spring 2015

I like to articulate the inarticulate in my paintings, or at least try to, because languages are meant to describe human experiences, new experiences, the old ones and the ones that haven’t come yet, and painting is the language I think I most succeed in speaking.

I like to paint what is between the salty abysses of my floorboards such as metal balls, glass cubes, wax flakes, bugs legs, linen tendons, definitely carbuncles, the eyes of needles, forever unforgotten elegies, night watchmen with lanterns, crumbs from a Zaro’s black and white, ghosts from the core of the earth, the formidable …

Express Yourself: Investigating Wartime Deportations In The Context Of Changing Soviet National Policy, Beryl Emily Taylor

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

Philip Roth/Nathan Zuckerman/Philip Roth Written/Written/Unwritten, Grayson Gibbs

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

How To Map A Desert, Ariana Perez-Castells

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

Immersion, Nelson James Doak

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Nelson Doak

Immersion

When I surf I feel an equilibrium, rhythm, a wholeness, synchronicity of myself deeply immersed in a process. Surfing is a complete satisfaction with the moment. This fullness or sensation fills a void that I always carry. I can't say exactly what that void is, but it is comprised of: The weight against moving forward, general dissatisfaction, and a stagnancy that comes from a lack of order or discipline.

My project involves finding the equilibrium or rhythm found in surfing through a creative process. One example is throwing a pot on the wheel which is a momentary …

Us: My Thoughts On Everything So Far, Samuel James Buffett-Haygood

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Growing up in two different households meant living two different lives for 18 years. Constantly changing environments led me to seek stability in other aspects of my life. I never knew how to feel about the whole situation; there were times of happiness but many times that I did not think I could manage. Art has always been my way of expressing the feelings that I did not necessarily know how to vocalize or explain. Rather than letting my emotions wreak havoc on my life, I got into the habit of translating these synnical comments that I had on society …

Clementine Sight: Exploring Vision In The Protrepticus, Oliver Alex

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

Patriarchy And The Power Of Myth: Exploring The Significance Of A Matriarchal Prehistory, Grace Varada Brandmaier

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Romanus Sum Ergo Sum: Claims To Romanitas From Late Antiquity To The Dawn Of Humanism, Alexander Amir D'Alisera

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

Midnight Cowboy Rides Again, Ilana R. Dodelson

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

Sangha And State: An Examination Of Sinhalese-Buddhist Nationalism In Post-Colonial Sri Lanka, Hannah Clare Durham

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

A Contested Future: Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Native American Performers, And The Military's Struggle For Control Over Indian Affairs 1868-1898, Alexander Erez Echelman

Senior Projects Spring 2015

My project explores how and why William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody glorified the military's wars against Native Americans on the Great Plains through his career as a showman in the United States and in Europe. The military's and the Interior Department's competition for control over Indian Affairs allowed Buffalo Bill to support the army's image by adhering to popular white supremacist ideas in the nation. I look at how Buffalo Bill used his Native American performers to exemplify the military's peace keeping skills in the West while devaluing the Interior Department's authority in Indian Affairs.

In The Dream House, Tamzin F. Elliott

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

Silence, Speech, And Solidarity In Contemporary Asian American Literature, Amanda Gersten

Senior Projects Spring 2015

This project seeks to overturn popular misconceptions about Asian American literature by situating it in a political context while also attending to complexities of language and form. Chapter One explores the significance of silence in the work of Toshio Mori, whose Yokohama, California (1949) was the first book of short stories published by a Japanese American in the United States, ultimately finding that Mori’s work resists the notion of silence as indicative of “model minority” assimilation. Chapter Two uses Fredric Jameson's problematic theory of Third World “national allegory” as a compelling framework through which to criticize ongoing concerns about the …

Walls Have Ears But They Also Speak –A Comparative Study Of Two Playgrounds, Anna Hirson-Sagalyn

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

To Each Brick Woman, Ruby Podmore Jackson

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

This body of work represents both a newfound interest in “uncovering” my family’s history as it relates to my own, and in exploring how the physicality and materiality of ceramics can establish relationships between one’s body and physical forms. This collection of work is an attempt at bridging the gap between my “presence” and the past through the associations I make with color, form, material, process and scale.

These pieces are intended to reference the human form through their gestures, stances, their displacement of space (the way bodies do), …

Area Maior: The Functions Of Venus In Ovid's Fasti Iv, Luke Wilder Johnson

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

“Zafa, My Very Own Counterspell:” The Creation Of A Contrahistoria To The Trujillo Dictatorship With Humor In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao By Junot Díaz, Brooke Alexandra Kipling

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

Fill Your Holes For No-Body, Virginia Lopez-Anido

Senior Projects Spring 2015

The intention of this project was to reference the transition from childhood to adulthood by producing a body of work that abstracts, exaggerates and reinforces certain parts of ‘the figure’. This project alludes to a psychological and emotional remembrance of puberty as an experience that introduced and questioned bizarre forms of the ‘body’. Each piece in this project is represented like an artifact and like an image in which both negotiates qualities of humor, the uncomfortable and pathos. The combination between the plaster forms and the reconstructed parts/structures furthers some sort of anxiety out of necessity or support. It also …

“Repackaging The Patriarchy”: A Comparative Analysis Between Soviet And Contemporary Russian Reproductive Health Policies And Ideologies, Bella S. Mazzetti

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

Forsake Your Moneymaker: Defining And Defending The True Value Of Music, Preston Rw Ossman

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Roosevelt’S Recession, 1937: Lasting History And Contested Policy, Jonian Rafti

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Without Prospero: A Staged Reading And Continuation On Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', Samuel T. Robotham

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Without Prospero is a play I wrote over the course of my senior year. It culminated in a stylized staged reading in the Luma Theater at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts from March 27th to March 29th 2015. It featured Antonio Irizarry ’16, Max Green ’17, and Charlie Mai ’18. The play is a continuation on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, focusing on the character of Ariel just after the events of the play have concluded. Without Prospero explores power, loss, abandonment, and how we look at a servant/master relationship through the lens of traditional Shakespearean characters. The …

I'M Scared Of The Colors [Or At Least We Tried]: A Collaborative Theater Project, Marissa C. Shadburn

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Inspired by the history of the Berlin Wall, I’m Scared of the Colors [or At Least we Tried], is a collaborative theater project about the creative process, memory, history and love. My passions of working with people are always reflected in my art. I like to make pieces about communication and division, pieces about the relationships between people and how that is affected by modern societal constructions. In both my artistic work and my social work I hope to subvert normative expectations, while also challenging the boundaries of theater as an institution and as a genre. Through exploring and …

Like The Moon, Camille Weisgant

Senior Projects Spring 2015

An adaptation of the traditional Japanese Noh play "Ama," "Like the Moon" explores what it means to die in the 21st century, when death, just like life, is mediated by technology.

Flashbacks, Lies And Butterflies, Theresa Q. Holmes

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

Memory Card, Simone S. Leitner

Senior Projects Spring 2015

“I have always had a phenomenal memory,” a sentiment that I just recently remembered. Growing up I could recite every number in a thirteen string, remember a poem after one read, quote every menial conversation I had ever had. I considered myself cursed and blessed with an elephant’s memory: it made me extremely sensitive to others, often confused and upset when I heard people repeat the same things to me and make the same gestures. Had our interaction not meant anything? Do they not remember me?

Now I don’t remember. I lose things. I feel irresponsible with objects and conversations …

The Mind, The Brain, And The Self: The Limits Of Sense And Nonsense In Neurology And Psychology, Max Boris Baird

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

India And Its Northeast Exception: From Frontier To Forefront, Akshita Manjari Bhanjdeo

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Sour Milk: Women And The Hindu Nationalist Movement In India, Saumya Dadoo

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.