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Just a quirky girl from the South Side of Chicago who tries to put her thoughts into an art type of expression. I like dogs more than cats and I like a lot of alternative and independent things. The road less traveled, if you will.
Who am I? What do I view as questionable or important?
Reading Response Papers
Sketchbook Notes
Urban Interventions
This space is on the right after getting off the elevator of the third floor and it's just a table with chairs and I sit here on Tuesdays and Thursdays before my 4 o'clock class. It feels empty and isolated but there's always people walking past and getting off the elevator or through the stairs. I spend this time alone watching videos and charging my laptop and doing homework and editing photos I take. Sometimes it smells gross because the people in the next room have Panda Express or McDonald's. It's just a space where I can listen to music and do my online stuff while using the school's WIFI.
This is a stairwell that I think is easiest to access through the fifth floor of the Art and Exhibition Hall. Getting off the main elevator it's on the farthest end of the floor; I call this staircase "secret" because I hardly see anyone use it. I tried to use it once but I got really scared because the door locks once it's closed and I didn't know that. Luckily, I found an open door on a lower level. The staircase is really quiet and there's dust all over the ground so it's not good for sitting on; there's all kinds of drawings and writings on the walls and the stairs. The atmosphere feels very spooky and creepy to me because hardly anyone uses it.
Claiming Space
What does claiming space look like? This past class (11/1), my class and I went to the Jane Adams Hull House and what was inside didn't look very interesting but the story behind them was. The Hull House was a place where troubled, problematic, or abandoned children would be sent to be set on the right path. Now it's a museum displaying their cause. The square blocks on the left of the set were put in that way on the wall to make it interactive for visitors to learn of the time in 2013 when schools were being shut down due to budget cuts and the schools not meeting the efficiency quota that was set for Chicago Public Schools. The blocks have the names and pictures of some of the 50 schools that were shut down. The middle picture has different designs that some of the students from those shut down schools made put into a puzzle wall in the next room. The picture on the right is a wallpaper that was also made by the students that says "Violence" and "Is it worth it?"
Veronica, you are doing very nice descriptive work with these art works from the "Claiming Space" exhibit. I particularly like the way you reference the specific history of school closures the exhibit is responding to.
Karyn
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