For my humanities project, we got to choose one out of 29 different projects that we wanted to do individually, where we would then add our own creative twist that would connect to what we have been learning about in Humanities. The projects came from the book Wicked Arts Assignment. We had to make our projects related to what we have been learning in humanities class, and in this semester, we have been learning about food and food systems. For my humanities project, I decided to connect my project to the topic of Ultra-Processed foods (UPFs). Out of the 29 projects we got to choose from, I chose to do the assignment called Copy-Paste writing, where I created writing while only using information copied from the internet. My twist was called the UPF debate, where I will create a debate script on whether UPFs are more harmful than helpful, while only using information I copied off the internet. I picked this project because it sheds light on the negative and positive effects of eating and preparing UPFs from an expert's perspective. 

UPF Debate

Artist Statement

UPF slides

In Physics and Humanities class, we made a rube Goldberg Machine to represent my partner's and my own food story. I used limited materials like dominoes and Legos to make a chain reaction. In my food story, My family drove away in a car and left me at a restaurant while I was going to the bathroom. To represent this, I made a Lego car trigger the reaction, and at the end of the chain reaction, a marble rolls into a Lego toilet that I made. My partner's food story was her tradition where she spends Christmas Eve with her mother and makes Lasagna. I represented her story by making a Lego Christmas tree fall and start the domino reaction chain.

In this project, my partner and I made a blueprint for our Rube Goldberg Machine. My job was to write all of the annotations, and my partner did the drawing.

In this project, I made a visual recipe for lasagna to represent my partner's food story. I drew a step-by-step recipe and an ingredients list with colored pencils.

In this project, I made a comic recipe on Canva to represent my partner's food story of how she spends her Christmas Eve with her mother and makes lasagna.

Comic story

In this project, we were randomly put into groups of four to make a wheel with a common them throughout. My group chose to make a road that connects each of our wheel segments. Each group member was to make one section of the wheel, and we would put them together at the end. Each wheel segment had a theme to represent the process that food goes through to get from the farm to the table. The four sections were Farm, Transportation, Table, and Money. In our wheel our group we chose the food topic of cheese. We then calculated the amount of joules it takes to get the cheese from the dairy farms to the table. In my wheel segment, I was in charge of calculating how much money it takes to get one truckload of cheese from the farm to the table. For example, I added up all the costs of labor, transportation/fuel, packaging, cows, feed, etc. Next, I divided all the costs by how many ounces of cheese one truckload can carry to find the profit per ounce of cheese it would produce based on the walmart price of $8.88 (37 cents/ounce). After everyone was done drawing and painting their individual wheel segments, we then built the base of the wheel and the frame of the wheel. Then we attached a jug of water with a string to the wheel and dropped it to make the wheel spin. To connect our project to physics, we then calculated how many spins it would take to equal the same amount of joules of energy as the process it takes to get cheese from the farm to our tables, and it ended up being around 14 million spins! 

In this project I wrote a letter to reading like as if it was a person. In this letter I told reading how it has made my life better and how it has alsways been a friend to me.

Dear Reading Final Letter

In this project, I made a portrait of myself using Desmos Graphing. First, I took a picture of myself and copied it onto a blank graph. I then used graphs as lines to match the lines of my face and body in the picture. I used different types of graphs for different curved lines with domain restrictions to prevent the graphed lines from going on infinitely. For example, I used linear equations for straight lines, exponential equations for slightly curved lines, and the circle equation for circular lines.

Desmos Self Portrait

Desmos Annotations