Headed down South

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​.iwill​catchyou​.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: