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Where The Sidewalk Ends, Is Where The Sidewalk Ends, Timothy J. Wehrle Jan 2021

Where The Sidewalk Ends, Is Where The Sidewalk Ends, Timothy J. Wehrle

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Where the sidewalk ends, is where the sidewalk ends

If I view my work as a sidewalk, then that sidewalk would end right where the reaction of the viewer begins their journey. My own experience with this senior project actually begins in the early 2000’s because the central form utilized in this new body of paintings and print appeared as part of an ornamental motif in my work from that period. I am referring to the head in profile form that repeats itself now as a singular structural and compositional element in this work. Though originally it appeared as a …


Shifting Center, Walker Bankson Jan 2021

Shifting Center, Walker Bankson

Senior Projects Spring 2021

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


Silver Scabs, Cree Anthony Vitti Jan 2021

Silver Scabs, Cree Anthony Vitti

Senior Projects Spring 2021

The eyes stay closed for a long time. oils, my leftover scraps, drops of saliva and grit forming a shell, eyelashes sealing to my lids.

Fingertips, friction ridges vibrating, wanting. I am trying to touch everything, touch myself, I touch another. I lie, pressing hard and soft, things feel the same. they smell different. They spoil, fresh to rot and back again. They taste so different but are the same, different only in response.

I lick my lips and the spit dries on the corners of my mouth.

My cleft palate all sewed up. Precious little threads holding it together, …


Je Me Souviens: Visualizing Language In Québec’S Quiet Revolution, Vita Bowman Sherin-Jones Jan 2021

Je Me Souviens: Visualizing Language In Québec’S Quiet Revolution, Vita Bowman Sherin-Jones

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College


I Thank You And All The Buildings That Make Me Feel So Small, Henry Holt Hull Jan 2021

I Thank You And All The Buildings That Make Me Feel So Small, Henry Holt Hull

Senior Projects Spring 2021

I use drawing and 3D animation to access memories of intimacy and distinctive spaces of privacy. Prior to this year I primarily worked with drawing and video, but always keeping them separate. However with my most recent project, I Thank You, and All the Buildings that Make me Feel so Small, I decided to combine my practice of drawing and 3D animation. I used adobe photoshop to convert my drawings from physical objects into 3D objects in the digital sphere.

The video you first encounter upon walking into my studio 400 Chambers and the video projected onto the ground Ivans …


Immortality: Conversations With Evul, Suprim Wq Allah Jan 2021

Immortality: Conversations With Evul, Suprim Wq Allah

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Everything Varies Under Love

The amount of love that we give to the various facets of our lives help shape the reality around us.

The way we interact with family, friends, strangers, our passions and pastimes should always be influenced by leading with the heart putting our all into what we do.

Everyone is looking for that thing. Money, a fulfilling job or relationship, a new destination, or the next opportunity. All in effort to make themselves whole.

As long as we continually strive to give and receive love in our lives, maybe we can look to open doors to …


Dead Weightless, Isaiah Schwartz Jan 2021

Dead Weightless, Isaiah Schwartz

Senior Projects Spring 2021

There is more than convenience embedded into my attraction to the unrefined materials that I work with. Shopping cart (baby size), palette, cheesecloth, bucket, and window. Each is rich with an individual history that expands beyond the use it was intended for. Suspending them in the air is my observance of the sanctity of their mundane uses. To create something new, also out of these unrefined materials, and to refuse to polish it. To have resolution in a thing that is also ambiguous. I can find intrigue in a million different things as soon as I pay attention to them. …


Self && Self, Shuang Cai Jan 2021

Self && Self, Shuang Cai

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Seldom before the COVID-19 pandemic have so many people simultaneously had their lifestyle drastically changed in the same way. The forced physical isolation is, ironically, a communal experience. The sickening quarantine left everyone nothing but time to confront and reconnect with themselves. Another inevitable result of corporal isolation is the predominant awakening awareness of digital existences and connections. Evoking the shared sensitivity and delicacy, studying the tectonic activity of the digital world, the project documents the endured contemplation in the upcoming resurgence.