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When I Grow Up, Maria Trinidad
When I Grow Up, Maria Trinidad
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Ever since I was a kid, I have had this fear that still lingers today: the fear of being an adult. It’s my ongoing fear.
I look back to my childhood. I find comfort. I was happy and stress-free. In my childhood, I was unrestrained and enjoyed my innocence. It was my “happier times”. I did not have the worries of responsibilities and burdens. That mindset changed when I realized my father had two full time jobs. I stopped acting my age and became more independent. I didn't want to trouble my parents with school or personal issues. Now I …
Quimby's Quests, Jamie E. Hoelzel
Quimby's Quests, Jamie E. Hoelzel
Senior Projects Spring 2021
Introduction to Quimby:
Quimby, the little green pom-pom with googly eyes and pipe-cleaner limbs, was my quarantine companion last Spring Semester while I was on the mostly empty campus. He was created during the beginning stages of the pandemic while I was stuck here at Bard finishing my classes remotely. They could go on adventures using his imagination while we were in quarantine, and they have followed me in my work ever since.The purpose of their creation was for their cute and simple character to use their imagination to have some wholesome fun, hopefully bringing smiles to people’s faces.
Quimby …
Making A Scene, Lucy Madeline Reiss
Making A Scene, Lucy Madeline Reiss
Senior Projects Spring 2020
Making a Scene
Over the past year, I have worked to produce what I think of as a visual work of translation. I have spent the last few years intermittently making work from childhood images or videos. I am lucky to have a sizable archive of visual information depicting me and those around me during my childhood at my disposal. Simultaneous to this long-term project dedicated to depicting scenes of my childhood, I have become enamored with teaching small children. In my quest to become a preschool teacher or work with kids in some capacity, I have had the delight …
The Fields Where We Grew Up, Emilee G. French
The Fields Where We Grew Up, Emilee G. French
TYGR: Student Art and Literary Magazine 2018-present
This watercolor painting (jpg.) is about childhood's end and love's beginning. The Fields Where We Grew Up is a painting about bringing the one you love to the place that begat you. It is a beautiful, circular life that we live in.
It Can't Leave You The Way It Finds You, Kyle Nobles
It Can't Leave You The Way It Finds You, Kyle Nobles
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
There’s a beautiful innocence in childhood where, although the world is large and new, it feels as though your place in it and the roles that you play are stable and unchanging. In our youth, outside of extraordinary circumstances, we are unburdened by the awareness that everything and everyone is subject to radical change—including our own sense of self. As we grow older though, looking back it becomes clear that this was never the case. In a matter of years, you can change so dramatically that you did not even notice as you became an entirely new person. For me, …
The Twilight Zone: The Confluence Of Childhood Scenes And Future Anxiety, Jongwon Bae
The Twilight Zone: The Confluence Of Childhood Scenes And Future Anxiety, Jongwon Bae
Theses and Dissertations
Jongwon Bae’s paintings reflect his childhood memories as an archive that is to be repressed until it manifests itself in uncertain ways as it becomes confluent with the anxiety about the future.
Childhood Home, Kira Marie Buckel
Childhood Home, Kira Marie Buckel
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.