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Beats to work and stress to  is a representation of some of the frustrated sounds that occur when I'm making art. I will often exclaim, apologize, swear, or otherwise vocalize in the practice room when I get frustrated with a passage I'm laboriously repeating. I will also scribble angrily when a drawing is not going the way I want it to. Thus, this sound project is made from scribbly sounds and scratchy viola sounds. It's groovy like the music I like to listen to when I study, but it's also vaguely anxiety-inducing, because for me it serves as a reminder of the times I get stuck and the times I will get stuck again.

"Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Broken Treaty Quilts." 2018 installation at Dartmouth College.                  I was unfortunately unable to attend the reception because of a schedule conflict with LSO rehearsal. My reflection will thus focus only on the talk. See her website here. I was impressed and moved by Gina Adams's work. I'm not sure if it's the bias in me towards seeing handcrafts as "not real art" or "women's work" or something, but when I heard she did work with quilts I was not especially excited. I should know better than that. Upon attending her talk, I realized I had severely underestimated my interest in her art and I listened with rapt attention. I was intrigued to hear of her disregard for the origins of her antique quilts, and I wondered (but did not ask) why she might ignore that aspect of her found objects, when such a large part of her art is focused on correcting the misrepresentations of history. At the same time, I d

  "These are difficult times because we are witnessing a clash of cataclysmic proportions between two great technologies." -McLuhan, pp. 94 This project was originally going to involve photographing people, but when I actually went outside to do so I found myself drawn to plants, as I am in most outdoor situations. I notice very small details that many people do not, and I can be entertained by a square inch of soil in the woods for upwards of an hour. I decided to follow my impulse and photograph the textures and small, complex shapes I saw around me on the walks I took. As I was walking, however, I began to notice how many man-made structures and textures looked similar to the natural world I was observing. From there, I decided to try and critique how people have been substituting outdoor environments for indoor ones, and how they are very reluctant to notice that this is often detrimental and unhealthy. It terrifies me that the world is changing in this way. I wish I didn