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Wisdom Of Nature: Finding Tao In Water, Ziyu Xu Jan 2022

Wisdom Of Nature: Finding Tao In Water, Ziyu Xu

Senior Projects Fall 2022

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


Setats Detinu, Felicia Elizabeth Flores Jan 2022

Setats Detinu, Felicia Elizabeth Flores

Senior Projects Fall 2022

One in four American adults has had a sibling incarcerated.

1 in 10 women have been raped by an intimate partner.

On any given night, approximately 41,000 unaccompanied youth ages 13-25 experience homelessness.

76% of child abuse perpetrators were a parent to their victim.

I felt so alone. The moment my brother was arrested, my ex-boyfriend raped me, I was a homeless child who ran away from my family, and my father abused me, I felt othered by society. My brother was a criminal, but he was my beautiful, passionate, kind, protective rock. My ex-boyfriend was a rapist, but he …


The In-Between Times, Abraham C. Shenk Jan 2022

The In-Between Times, Abraham C. Shenk

Senior Projects Fall 2022

I have grown up around cameras. My parents are documentary filmmakers. Early on, I understood how a photograph can capture reality. As a child, I also spent time in my grandfather’s darkroom, watching him as he went through the process of printing negatives. I watched as the images emerged in the chemicals. It seemed magical to me. A gnarled tree limb, a snow drift, a strange image emerging out of a series of torn papers on a wall. I remember him explaining the steps of making a picture. However, it was only when I arrived at Bard College that I …


What Happens In The Goldilocks Zone?, Ava M. Lee Jan 2022

What Happens In The Goldilocks Zone?, Ava M. Lee

Senior Projects Fall 2022

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


How Aesthetics Shape Our Ethics: Exploring Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, And Digital World, Nika Kokhodze Jan 2022

How Aesthetics Shape Our Ethics: Exploring Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, And Digital World, Nika Kokhodze

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Every day, we encounter numerous amount of images, films, news and propaganda. The different forms and manifestations of aesthetics haunts our lives daily. What if I told you that Aesthetics has immense amount of power? This project aims specifically at that as it explores authoritarian states and the liberal democracies alike. How could the moral compass that we all cherish and hold dearly be predicated and shaped by something so remote as aesthetics? Exploring through examples from the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the digital world we all live in, one might find some answers and the right questions to …


Apotheosis, Kira L. Hansen Jan 2022

Apotheosis, Kira L. Hansen

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Apotheosis invites the viewer to explore the both tensions and the joys of gender expression, love, sex and sexuality, the natural and the constructed worlds, and the body.