Teran Chapis

Political Science major

Wooden construction with plaster clementine

plaster, acrylic, wood, wood glue, nails

Jewett Sculpture Court

tall wood open cylinder sculpture with hanging planets and a central track with toy cars; an oversize orange clementine sits in the center

looking up from partly inside open cylindrical wood sculpture at hanging balls and one saturn-like form

My wooden construction for Sculpture I (ARTS 207) centers around the plaster fruit I completed for the class. Clementines were chosen to represent the Chinese New Year because it was believed they looked like the sun. They represent luck and abundance in the new year. When brought to the US, they were sometimes transported in orange train cars to announce that they had arrived for the Christmas holiday. We could all use a delivery of sunshine.

detail of a wood sculpture showing circular track with toy cars on it; all pale wood but two cars are orange; an oversize orange clementine sits in the center with red net around its bottom half

Self Portrait 2016 // Self Portrait 2020

recycled magazines, collage

Jewett Hallway Galleries

2 collage-style portraits hung on gray fabric wall; left has green background and shows a person with shoulder length wavy brown hair; right has newsprint background and shows person with short hair shaved at the sides, longer and bright pink on top

Unseen

mixed media

Jewett Hallway Galleries

clear acrylic cast of glasses with textured lenses on a small white pedestal; projection of text behind; the glasses cast a shadow on the projection

This video is the best approximation of my neurological visual impairment that I can create with my limited After Effects skills. It is one of my many invisible disabilities. Just because I don't wear glasses or use a cane, that doesn't mean it's not there. I cannot truly make the invisible visible, but by showing what I see, I can ask you to wonder about what you cannot.

Video narrators: Katherine Adler '22, Mary Canzano '22, Zoë Owens '22

pink acrylic glasses mounted in white pedestal; lenses covered with small silver charms

pair of glasses mounted in white pedestals; lenses covered by orange buttons reading 'I got vaccinated at Gillette Stadium'

small white pedestal with clear glasses on top, multiple glasses with variously obscured lenses mounted up and down its sides; projection of text behind it

Dirt Slut

mixed media

Jewett Hallway Galleries

red black and white collage-style image with various punk imagery; script text in the center reads 'Dirt Slut'

A fake band name, created by friends who sieved dirt in an Environmental Science lab for hours at time in the spring of 2021. I created art for this band, for all who love and appreciate soil.

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