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Diversity Banner Project

on April 06, 2021

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PERSONAL BANNER

Marbling Technique & Process Photos

FINAL MARBLING

TRIAL MARBLING

BLACK STUDENT UNION BANNER

Process Photos

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Textile in the Landscape

American Women in War ARTIST STATEMENT American Women—they are strong, driven, compassionate, and knowledgeable. Throughout the centuries, female roles within American wars are inspiring because the peace that has been created and sustained couldn't have been achieved without them. The Veterans Park Memorial, St. Augustine Beach, Florida, is a place of serenity and tranquility, built to honor those who served and fought for freedom. This park allows all who enter to embrace the freedom that was not given but rather earned. Women's intentions, actions, and power were built from the ground up over centuries and deserve to be known as those who also fought for peace and freedom. For this "textiles in the landscape" project, I created a place within the Veterans Park Memorial for all American women who served alongside our American soldiers. With extensive research, colored felt, and typography, I recreated historical and present-day quotes from propaganda posters an

COLOR RESPONSES

Color -- A Natural History of the Palette Victoria Finlay TEXTILE COLOR RESPONSES

On-Longing

"The body is the primary mood of perceiving scale." This photo was taken of my best friend, Taylor, in Paris, France in front of the Eiffel Tower. It was intended to be taken so far away so that Taylor perceived to taller than the Eiffel Tower because as anyone knows the Eiffel Tower is massive. However, in this photo, the Eiffel Tower is perceived to be much smaller than Taylor and proves that when a human body is placed in a certain position in front of something the scale of things can be completely changed. "The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, the three-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body." Since I was very young, my dad has always cut down a rather large Christmas tree and throughout the years we have collected multiple extravagant ornaments. The most meaning ornaments to me, are our Swarovski crystal ornaments. Each Christmas, my grandmother gives my mom one as a gift and they are

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