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The Grocery Store
Dauphiene Parks
This piece explores a mental health challenge in a young girl and how she is triggered by her family’s financial stress while shopping for groceries during the global Covid pandemic. I was inspired to dig through some memories, and what kept popping up with the challenge of my anxiety and Sensory Processing Disorder and dealing with that as a young kid. I imagined it as if my childhood was taking place now during the pandemic. I went through the memory and filled in some blank spots with details that made sense. But the skeleton of it is a true story.
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Black Panther Cubs Party
Matthew Scott
An ode to the children and members of the Black Panther Party. Celebrating their courage and detailing just how far they’ve come.
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Plague
Matthew Scott
A poem of the mentality of dealing with the Coronavirus Pandemic. As well as an illustration of self depreciation in times where everything feels as if it’s in standstill.
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Raise Your Flag
Matthew Scott
A call to action monologue detailing the reason and motives for the Black Lives Matter protests that occurred in the Summer of 2020. As well as covering why those protests should continue in the coming years.
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Succession of the Panthers
Matthew Scott
A short essay illustrating the procession of time when it comes to activism in the Black Community. Detailing how the torch has been passed to the current generation and that the struggle continues.
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Consumption
Vince Sercia
Explores the hyper consumption filled society we live in and how greed and consumerism has shaped are identity while also reflecting on how we can escape from that.
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In Depth Piece
Vince Sercia
Polarized
Explores divisiveness in our country, frustration with incremental reform and the feelings of powerlessness that I felt during the Pandemic. Along with some of the reasons I believe cause these problems.
End times
Reflecting on the last year during the Pandemic. Exploring how to make change and continue to dream of a better future during difficult times.
Divided we fall
Explores the divisiveness that has engulfed the world before the pandemic. That has only been catalyzed by the pandemic. Along with exploring personal struggled during the pandemic.
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Stars and Stripes
Vince Sercia
Explores America's heavy reliance on hard and soft power. While reflecting on the fact that the material conditions that western powers enjoy is built on the exploitation of other peoples and cultures around the world.
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I Can’t Breathe
Sarah Smet
I created this image to express the feeling of 2020. Pictured are individuals gathered for a Black Lives Matter protest, in honor of George Floyd. I put the words “I Can’t Breathe” over the images. Those were the words that George Floyd gasped in his final moments. It is also what people said as their homes burned to the ground due to wildfires that ran rampant in 2020. Lastly, it is a complaint that many people had when masks became the new normal- this saying was briefly, inappropriately, reappropriated by anti-maskers. All in all, 2020 had an oppressive, stressful, suffocating feeling that I tried to capture in a simple image.
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In Depth Assignment
Sarah Smet
In class we have discussed our own experiences dealing with 2020 and 2021. This piece began as a response to the prompt “How do you see the world after COVID?” As someone who naturally turns to writing to process things, this piece came easily. While it is a personal narrative, based on my own specific experiences, I thought it might be good to share because I know I am not alone in my struggles.
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Interview with a Substance Abuse Counselor and Psychiatric Technician
Sarah Smet
I interviewed Melissa Smet, a Psychiatric Technician and Substance Abuse Counselor who runs Substance Abuse classes for mentally disordered offenders and prisoners for the Department of Mental Health for Atascadero State Hospital. We discussed her job on a day to day basis, the prison system, and mental health. This is the raw audio file for the interview.
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Street Art
Sarah Smet
These are three examples of street art that I have documented in the last several years. When we discussed protest art and music, I went digging through my old photos to find these. I remember seeing these images and having them really resonate with me. One of the amazing things about art, especially street art, is that it makes large ideas accessible for any passersby. I think that is one reason why it is used in the act of protest so often. It leaves viewers feeling emotional, open, and vulnerable, which is when people are the most receptive to new ideas or opinions.
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The End
Sarah Smet
This is a creative short story that I wrote. Imagining a world, where we do not make major strides towards sustainability, is a scary idea. I wrote this little introduction to a sci-fi story in class one day. The image of a burning Earth stuck with me, so instead of turning it in as a writing sample, I designed an image to go along with the piece.
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The Good 'Ol Days
Sarah Smet
This is a video, and an accompanying poem regarding what it feels like to look back on “The Good ‘Ol Days.” This work serves as a reminder to not take time for granted.
Prompt: Response 4: Create an artwork (digital or physical), creative writing piece, or music in response to an aspect of your identity. Look deeply into who you are and how you envision your connection to the world post pandemic. Stretch your own boundaries here as you envision the future.
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A Decade Rolls
Larissa Summers
I created this piece in response to a history of the LGBTQ communities history of ignoring trans people in favor of straight white gay men. I used Sylvia Rivera’s speech as inspiration, and took sources from LGBTQ history.
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In-Depth Piece
Larissa Summers
I created this piece as a response to the growing climate crisis. I used a variety of sources, but mostly papers published by the University of Harvard.
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Theater After Covid
Larissa Summers
I took inspiration from a podcast I published on theater during the life of Covid. My sources were the interviewees I talked to for said podcast.
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Empty World
Samuel Tanner
My Week 8 response. A short story based on the prompt, “what would the world look like if humans disappeared?” After visiting my home town and my family recently, I portrayed the town in the aftermath of this mass disappearance, narrated by an extraterrestrial visitor.
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No More Lies
Samuel Tanner
A picture submitted as my Week 5 response. It’s a protest sign asking for no more lies from our elected leaders. I was moved to create it by the aftermath of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the election and the January 6th attack on the Capitol. In 2020, the agenda of the now-former president and his party led to a culture of lies that cost countless lives. Hence my asking for “no more lies.”
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The Open Road
Samuel Tanner
A short story based on my Week 4 response. Taking some inspiration from my personal experiences, and from the college experience in general for students living here in Marina. I assembled it through taking a long walk around my neighborhood, capturing a photograph, and then putting the day’s experience into words.
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Alone Time
Bryant Taylor
This painting is a reflection of my time during the pandemic. Although the figure may look lonely, they are merely getting some much needed alone time while looking at the moon.
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Looking Ahead by Thinking Back
Bryant Taylor
In this podcast, I build on a previous topic from class and discuss what I think my personal life will look like post pandemic. Throughout the semester, I’ve become more comfortable with the podcast format and decided to use it for my final project.
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What the Pandemic Allowed
Bryant Taylor
In this response activity, I explain one of my paintings as a reflection of what the pandemic allowed me to finally have: me-time.
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