7/5

Bora

We were on the yesterday's newspaper!

Our group project is on the process.

Ilene

"We spent all of today in class working on our project. Much of it was individual work but we did discuss some things in a group. I think all our different parts will look unique, fitting for the fact that we are each different, but there will be an over lying unity. The project will have both obvious and metaphoric symbolism of each of us. Bora and Alia are both doing transparencies and screen printing while I am doing a transfer and paint(or screen printing). However the basic composition will be similar. We also need to get working on the wood blocks for the smaller piece, however we have not yet got those, so we won't be able to start until we do...once we do, it should go by fairly fast though. In terms of cultural differences, we had an interesting moment yesterday when Josh asked how we were going to construct our larger blocks. Before I could suggest using wood glue, Bora jumped in offering to do it(at MICA that would be perfectly normal). However, rather than being thanked and moving on(like what would happen at MICA) Alia, Fatma, and Josh just kind of laughed. We were told they could find someone to do it, which was kind of a relief that we had less work, but such a weird difference from the "do everything and do it yourself" attitude back home. So all we really have to do is decorate the wood with our images."