For this assignment I have taken the last studio album of the late Rapper ‘Pop Smoke’ and broken it down into a series of numbers describing some common features in songs including the number of words, verses, time and features. I chose this because I have a personal interest in the composition of songs and believe breaking them down into numerical form was an interesting way of showing that.

By: Thomas Triebe-Pay

Taking the time to call all those in my contacts, I wrote down their individual greetings and goodbyes and composed their scripts in order of who I called. Some were welcoming, some surprised, while others didn’t even pick up. Some had unique greetings, while others were pretty similar.

Framing a person by their style of speaking; I see an image of the person in each of these simple ways of a personal beginning and end

A colour-coordinated conceptual portrait of my vegetarian diet. For this project, I collected 25 of my most recent grocery receipts and combined each and every item by hue. 

Green(27), Red(12), Brown(23), Yellow-brown(8), Light brown(10), Orange(11), White(8), Pink(1), Blue(2), Black(2), Yellow(5).

Medium: Acrylic Paint and Paper, cut into circles.

By Victoria Abballe

By Sierra Dejesus-Joyner

Buttons inspired by the phrase, to wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve. Choose from 6 colours of heart and follow the simple instruction on the button sheet: “to be worn on your sleeve”.

I semi-arbitrarily made the buttons 7 cm in diameter because I didn’t know the size of the school button machine, so they might have to be reformatted for actual use.

These are the routine breakfasts of 45 seniors who live and have lived at the retirement home where I work. Almost exclusively enjoyed at home, breakfast is the most personal meal. It tells a lot about a person, way beyond their likes and dislikes. Through routine morning interactions, I have committed all of these orders to memory, and have written them down, once again like clockwork, for my portraits of these elderly residents. I am able to bring their meals, no longer needing to ask for their orders. By doing this I know that all of these lovely people feel seen, known, and understood. It is this understanding that compelled me to create these portraits in this manner.

Isabella De Tullio

Conceptual Portrait

(please click on the link as if you scroll through the photos straight from the blog, not all of them load, and their intended order is lost)

Part 2!

Book: 나는 늑대예요 (I’m a Wolf) by 이현 & 박재현 (Ee Hyeon & Pak Jae-Hyeon)

“Translation” by Sierra Dejesus-Joyner

This isn’t the main piece if just one has to be picked for marking (the official piece will be the video), but I worked really hard on this too and it’s pretty funny, so I wanted to share it, even if it doesn’t count toward the project. I read and translated a Korean children’s book in the same manner as the song posted previously. Just what I know. No dictionary. Please enjoy the nonsense.