Dear Stranger

I’m not sure why these photographs have been on my mind this morning but they have.
They are from a project that I worked on my junior year at Parsons called “Home Turf.”
As I remember it, the basic idea of all of the projects done in this class was to explore the relationship between a given institution, The New School, and those who utilize it. For my project I had interviewed a random sample of students across various divisions and programs at the school, asking questions about how the expectations they’d had for their educational experience compared to the actual experience of being a student navigating through the school. Towards the end of the project I worked on this set of photographs as a way of drawing this “public” exploration back down into a “private” or personal-to-me one.

I played with this one in a few ways. It was a particularly simple but striking statement to me at the time… and still, but for different reasons.

Not all negative sentiments…

But many were

I’m happily done with Parsons now and studying at Hunter College instead. I set the curve on an exam in my “Brain and Behavior” exam last week, which is part of why Dear Stranger hasn’t seen a decent update in a while.

There were other thoughts… maybe later. I’m baking a lasagna.