Thesis 1 (Revision Spring 2025)

 Thesis 1 



February 5, 2025 (Updated May 20, 2025) 

I transformed this piece and my Childhood memory piece to be one for my studio art show. This time, the shopping cart sits cocooned in on itself, and I return to this piece from the fall with a little bit more urgency–the environment I am hiding from decides itself, but the shopping cart is my little bit of safety in an art show that has been both my worst fear and exhilarating to put on. 


Borrowing from my Thesis 2, this rendition of the Harp Lesson remains true to its meaning from Winter term. In the shopping cart, I felt safe. On my grandmother’s couch eating blueberries waiting for my sister Clara to be done with her lesson, I also felt safe. Walter drives the addition to this piece, hunched over a typewriter, and writes diary entries on pieces of paper which he then adds as decoration to his shelter. Getting to dress up and take pictures is one accomplishment, but the protection of the shopping cart makes me feel safe enough to wear Walter outside of what had previously been my bathroom and towns miles away. 


typewriter, paper shreds, water, yarn, post its, blueberries, various bowls and cups, children's literary magazines, children's books

For my first thesis piece, I "stole" the following concepts:

1. When I was little, from the ages of 7-12, I had to accompany my sister to her harp lessons with my grandmother, multiple times a week, sometimes every day. I would sit in the living room and she would play the same songs over and over again for weeks. My grandfather knew I liked blueberries and always kept the fridge stocked, and so this particular memory drives the piece. There will be an audio component of my sister's harp recordings and possibly the noise of a typewriter keyboard. 

2. Because of our age gap, my sister and I fought often and I kept a diary recording this, entries of which I typed unto paper I made from a previous project. 

3. Post-it conversations found between my sister and I. 

What happens when Walter leaves?


Close up shot of what Walter wrote during the performance. 




                                                   







PROGRESS PICTURES: 


                                                                       Process photo 



original concept 





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