I am writing this blog post from the airport, waiting for general boarding to begin for my flight to Dallas for the holidays. What a whirlwind semester its been! I have one semester of graduate school left, and the combination of finishing my thesis and starting my job hunt is starting to get hectic and a little overwhelming. But right now I am just looking forward to getting back to the Homestead and celebrating a little Christmas.

The biggest project I worked on this semester was actually a full-fledged exhibition called If You Fall.... It was an exhibition that questioned the independent, stand-alone implications of the American Dream, and celebrated the dependent relationships in our lives. I helped make the website: www.iwillcatchyou.org.

The exhibit was the final project of my Elective Affinities class, which was a graphic design studio class that also looked at the design of various structures for collaboration. So we worked in groups a lot, and spend a lot of time talking about what type of group structure resulted in the best final product and the most satisfying working experience.

It culminated in all thirteen members on the class collaborating on this exhibit, which we installed last weekend and officially opened this past Wednesday: