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Remembering Elsewhere, Amelia Ernestine Walsh

Senior Projects Spring 2017

In my works, I tried very hard to create characters with unusual perspectives. I wanted to write from the point of view of children, while avoiding anything overly precious or intentionally naive. The trauma of aging, and eventually dying, are the themes for these works. I attempted to draw forth unusual and thought-provoking imagery that could successfully draw my reader into a constructed reality and, hopefully, draw them to less common questions we might ask regarding human nature.

Spell For The Lost, Branford Hayes Walker

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Spell for the Lost is a novella of prose poems, constructed ekphrasticaly from generated symbols, with the intention of linking writing fiction and the process of magic-doing.

The Manor House: A Novel, Cleo Rose Egnal

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

From Here It Is A Patch Of Silver, Caroline H. Petty

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

Snake Eyes, Abigail Rose Freaney

Senior Projects Spring 2017

A novella about a family roadtrip that takes a detour through one of the Mojave's darker dimensions.

The Waters I Saw Drank Me In, Will Steen Strand

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

G:, Taylor Lafe Cantrall

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

The Transformation Of Material Things, Robert M. Crane

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

The Cliff, Beatrice Ann Wedd

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

Death, Love Duty: A Therepeutic Triptych - Written By Mouna Krupardini, Mouna Krupardini

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

Stopped Before Beauty: Meditations On The Closed Door, Hannah Celia Harwell Fassett

Senior Projects Spring 2017

This project is an integration of nonfiction vignettes within a critical study of personal writer’s entryways into the beauty and meaning of the world. Using the religious metaphysics and aesthetic theory of Simone Weil, I will trace the intersections between beauty and shame in the genre of personal essay, diary-keeping, and memoir across various cultural moments. It will travel between Westerbork Transit Camp through Etty Hillesum’s diary, the outskirts of Bard College in Mary Gaitskill’s Lost Cat, and Virginia Woolf’s summer dwelling, St. Ives, through A Sketch of the Past. Finally, in echoing that process of writing-through, I will step …

Strange Encounters: Four Stories Of God, Silence, Loss, And Cougars, Charles Emanuil Noyes

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

The Even Passage Of The Sun, Terrence Suraj Arjoon

Senior Projects Spring 2017

A collection of poems that explore the relation of the individual to the world, a world of violence, complex systems of nature and industry, and beauty. The contemporary experience is filtered through the lenses of alchemy and metallurgy, drawing upon my personal history and readings in an attempt to make something completely atemporal.

Stories That I'Ve Heard Before, Matt Balik

Senior Projects Spring 2017

An episodic narrative about a family from New Jersey, told from the perspective of a mother to her young son and focusing on the decline of her father.

Sins, Omissions, And Alibis, Johanna Marie Costigan

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Short stories, creative nonficiton, prose poems.

By Order Of The Author, Mason Manfred Sorokof Segall

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

Undertow - A Collection Of Short Stories, Phoebe Tess Present

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

This System Has Failed Us, Kate Murray Bickhardt

Senior Projects Spring 2017

When I go to a courtroom the only color I see is orange. I don’t want to talk down to people. The projection is level to the floor. There are 2,500 napkins. They are the people, the garbage, and the repetition of the excess, and my hope of giving them importance. There are roughly 2,500 people in the Orleans Parish Prison on any given day, but the system is bigger than them. It’s more consuming and this is not nearly the amount of napkins it would take to represent the people in even just one state's carceral system. The space …

Glimpses, Duncan Puce Hanrahan

Senior Projects Fall 2017

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

read em and weep mf'ers

Landscapes Which Are Actually Words., Ella Kit Vandergaw Scott

Senior Projects Spring 2017

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

Begin Again, John David Carroll

Senior Projects Fall 2017

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

Make It Point, Peter Avery Schreiber

Senior Projects Spring 2017

1. Finding a Willingness to Disappoint

Steel, latex paint, wood. An object that attempts to make a self-sufficient structure from a series of failed attempts. Hardware shows as an answer, but over and over, an answer isn’t enough. More than anything, each answer is the sum of its shape and weight, not its’ prescribed function.

2. My Own Sliding Self-Respect

Steel, enamel, latex paint, wood, light fixture, colored light bulb, extension cord. Scale is a measurement of self-worth. Some people know exactly how much space they take up, others lack a sturdy shape in their volume. And light takes up …