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Prop and Generosity Performance Art For my prop and generosity performance piece I based it on a memory that I have of me and my grandpa. When I was younger me and my family would visit my grandma and grandpa's house in Waco a couple times a year. Me and my grandpa, Poppy Jo, would go in the front yard and sit on this stone bench under a pecan tree. He would then get a pecan shell from the tree, open it with his bare hands, and then share the pecans he opened with me.  I made a prop for everyone that consisted of a container with each person's name on it and three pecans. Then a piece of paper handwritten for everyone to explain further the project, the paper said:                In this simple thing my grandpa would do with me I felt his generosity  and love towards me. I felt his generosity in those moments we used to share together by him just giving me something so simple and small.            ...

 Ritual and Personal Space Installation For this project I wanted to use this time to work on my mental and physical wellbeing. Over the course of the 5 out of 7 days I chose to go get lunch at the DC, come back to my room and eat my lunch in front of my mirror. It sounds a bit strange but it was quite therapeutic. In the past I have had a unique relationship with food. In high school I went on a missions trip to Albania and when I came back I was barely eating for about a month, then I finally saw a doctor and got blood tests done. Turns out I got a virus from my trip, I got medicine for it and then it was gone. Even after the virus was gone my eating habits continued and I developed a minor eating disorder from it. I still occasionally can get back into it or get in that mindset again. Doing this ritual for 5 days just sitting there alone watching myself eat my lunch was something Iv'e never experienced before and I connected with myself on a more intimate level then ever before....

 Meet in the Middle  For the meeting in the middle project, my partner Emily lives in Ocean View off campus and I am on campus. So trying to find our middle distance between each other was a bit challenging but quite the adventure. When we first met up to see our middle it was private property so we had to adapt and find a usable space for our installation. Right next to our middle destination was a small stretch where you could pull over and behind was what looked like a run down park/open space. As we were there trying to figure out what to do cars would zoom by not looking what was around them. So Emily and I decided to make three stop signs with one sort of cryptic word on each so it wasn't so obvious. The first with the word EASE, to signify slowing down. The second was STILL, to signify stopping. The last was RELEASE, to signify releasing off the break and going. All three of the stop signs show the motions or thought process of encountering a stop sign. But the sign cou...

 Measuring Histories  "Poppy Jo, Reinstalled and Reimagined"       For my measuring histories project I chose to measure time through my grandpa's story who passed away three years ago from Alzheimers and dementia. The green material above in my installation is cut up bubble wrap that I actually used to transport my sophomore project from last year back to school this year for the art show. The bubble wrap is to show the decay that my grandpa's illness caused. As the bubble wrap makes its way down and starts to dwindle until there is nothing left is to show the process he went through in the last three years of his life. To look at his life at a distance and see the all the missing pieces from a far. It was cool working with a material that literally protected him (the picture below) on its way to school with me makes me feel sad. It makes me sad because this digital drawing that I did in honor of him and for Alzheimer’s awareness that I made last year, I m...