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Earth’s Persistence and Sentience
Geovanni Guzman
I depicted how earth - in its cosmic presence is stricken by a cancer that is humanity. The toll that it is taking on her and how the other, uninhabited planets look on in dismay, I created it because all around I see how beautiful earth and life is and how some take advantage of her. I assembled it b thinking how earth, in a grander perspective might look.
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The Pale Faces Are Coming
Geovanni Guzman
Californios and how America Came to them. I enjoyed this writing because it puts into perspective a hidden history that has to be unearthed, and how it should be more prevalent in common education. I took apart a history book by Rodolfo Acuña.
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Gender Traitor
Olivia Howard
I wanted to create this piece for everyone in my community as a reminder that we are queer and we aren’t going anywhere. Though it's in my style, I experimented with new techniques and brushes to create a dichotomy of texture from hard to soft to mirror how gender expression often appears. While painting this I leaned into the more masculine aspects of my identity, something that pushed me out of my drawing comfort zone, seeing as I usually draw femme presenting people. I drew this piece in the program Procreate and utilized its many brushes.
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Growth
Olivia Howard
This piece evolved as I did this semester through the ebbs and flow of quarantine. The more ups and downs I went through the more cuts and subsequent growth I drew in this piece. I want this piece to be something I can always go back to and add on. I drew this piece in the program Procreate and utilized its many brushes.
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Peace
Olivia Howard
I wanted this peace to show how nature would end up growing over everything we have done to it and how it would be a restart. I was inspired by Bob Ross, someone who has always brought me serenity and shows nature's true beauty. I drew this piece in the program Procreate and utilized its many brushes.
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“Normal”
Brent Johnson
Monologue on the futility of trying to define the sought after idea of a return to “normal”, inspired by our class readings and various online resources of writers questioning when “normal” can return as if that’s a set thing we know how to define.
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The Earth Won’t Die
Brent Johnson
When given a particularly grim outlook on the future of the world without mankind, I wanted to make it clear how I feel about the resiliency of the earth itself. Mankind can succeed in killing itself and all other life on this planet, but nothing it could ever do will stop life from eventually finding its way back. I wanted to focus on the idea that this world has faced total annihilation before, and new life still managed to come after that, the Earth can kill us but we can’t kill The Earth.
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They Still Matter
Brent Johnson
An image I created during one of our reading responses, noticing that images of protests during the civil rights movement and today are functionally the same pictures. I wanted to draw attention to this by simply replacing the signs of old with modern ones seen at more recent protests, and noting that it doesn’t change the meaning of said protests at all.
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After
Ashley Kohaut
My piece was inspired by our in class prompt: what do you imagine the world would be like if humans were stripped from its existence. Myself being an existentialist had a field day with this prompt.
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2 Presidents. 2 Pandemics.
Claire Larson
I compared the similarities of Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump and the ways they handled 2 major health crises. History repeats itself, and the future needs to remember that. I lost an Uncle to AIDS in the 80’s. Losing a loved one to AIDS is similar to losing a loved one to COVID. It feels like the government doesn't care and you lose the chance to make memories with a person you won’t ever meet.
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A World With...
Claire Larson
A world without humans might sound environmentally better, but a world without humans would also be a world without some amazing moments we love. It’s easy to imagine how green the world might be, but sometimes these thoughts can lead to eco-fascism. Humans can be good, and so are the things we love.
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Everything is Fine
Claire Larson
For most of the pandemic, I felt like I needed to have my life together, yet lost my creativity and passion as I participated in hustle culture. I created this as a way to feel artistic again and also admit to myself that I did go through intense and traumatic experiences. I used canva and picart as my main collage methods.
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La Hermana Mayor in a Pandemic - A Collection of Poems based on Identity: Told From the Perspective of an Older Sister In a Latino Household During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Andrea Lopez
A series of poems exploring the experience of an older sibling during the pandemic.
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In-depth project: The Nature of Now and the Future
Madison N. Mederos
Brushfire
Living in the Central Valley, I have become very familiar with hearing about fires. We get very little rain and everything is very dry surrounding the valley, making it very for the land to be set ablaze. I wanted to share a piece that sort of described the setting of how a fire around here starts and the lifespan of the fire.
A Future Without People
I wanted to write about the earth long into the future when humans have died off and it is just animals left to roam the world. I feel like there are so many ways to look at the future since no one can truly predict what's going to happen, I wanted to write about just one of the infinite possibilities of the future.
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Lockdown
Madison N. Mederos
The feelings experienced throughout the lockdown. The pessimistic side of the pandemic, and hitting rock bottom during the lockdown. I felt it was necessary to show that there were some hard feelings and dark thoughts experienced throughout this time and nobody should feel like they were alone in having these sort of feelings.
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What is to Come?
Madison N. Mederos
It’s about life after the pandemic, especially as college students. We have been working so hard to graduate and succeed in life and now we wonder if that is even still and option.
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Four Possibilities For Future Living or The Expulsion of Chemie Spulung: A Contingency Plan for Social Rejects
Shawn Middleton-Bryson
This science-fiction short story is set in near-future California where the regularity of extreme weather events has created several distinctly different living scenarios for its inhabitants. I created it in response to the inevitability of severe human climate change impacts that have already begun to manifest in our lifetimes. This idea was based on discussion topics from Week #8 of our class.
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No People- Land and Soundscapes
Shawn Middleton-Bryson
This is a video collage of nature landscapes without human beings. The sounds were recorded from my backyard bird feeder and beehive. This video/soundscape should invoke a sense of peace and tranquility and allow the viewer to enjoy the sights and sounds of nature. The few instances of power lines and empty roads are symbolic of what is happening when people are not around- nature being natural, peace and tranquility. I assembled it using the iMovie app on my iPad, I recorded the sounds with my iPhone 6s. The shots are from as far north as the Oregon coast and the bulk are from Monterey and Santa Cruz County. This was inspired from Week#8 imagine a world with no people.
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Stop Asian Hate
Shawn Middleton-Bryson
This photo collage was created in response to the dramatic rise in anti-Asian American acts of violence that have occurred during the Coronavirus pandemic. It was assembled from internet photo sources and was collaged using an open source app. on an iPad Pro. This was inspired from Week#5 Pandemic Art assignment
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Sunrise Central
Meghan Morrison
Sunrise Central is inspired by the creative fiction book “Cities of Light,” an anthology focused on reimagining the future in terms with the solar energy that will soon power out cities. Sunrise Central imagines a suburb far in the future, one who moves with the sun in harmony, from the perspective of a child who knows little about how the world previously worked. Fictional, creative, short story.
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The Cost of Rest
Meghan Morrison
A short piece reflecting on what the future after COVID-19 will be, especially pertaining to the idea of sick time, sick leave, and rest.
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The Future of Theatre
Meghan Morrison
A short piece imagining how theatre and live performances have changed and how they can change in response to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Their Land
Meghan Morrison
A short story from a non-human first person speaker, viewing a world abandoned by humans. The world has decayed, and nature has progressed, and a short reflection on their interactions.
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Post Covid Child Development
Dauphiene Parks
I explored a question about how Covid has affected the development of our children’s social skill development and the consequences after Covid on children who didn't learn certain basics like body language.
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The Auntie Sewing Squad
Dauphiene Parks
A poem exploring the beauty of the organization of the Auntie Sewing Squad (people who came together to create masks and send them to those in need).
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