By Annie Pease, VI Form

Over the summer, I was rummaging through some of my old things and opened a box in the attic to find what was left of my old ballet costumes.  Sadly, the box had become more of a storage space for mice than a storage space for my precious childhood memories.  I began to sort through the remaining bits of tulle and embellished leotards.  Aside from one only slightly damaged dress, the jeweled scraps of the five or six others were the only pieces still in tact.  I realized that the tattered dresses were a physical representation of the memories I have of that time in my life: the shining moments were still in place, but everything around them was gone.  By this time in the (more…)

by Lucy Cao, III Form and Rory Colburn, IV Form

In Art Studio II, students read an article in Harvard Magazine called “The Digitization of the Humanities.” They looked critically at a large still life of objects representing the history of technology, including objects we do not readily associate with today’s lightning speed of information gathering and synthesis.  The assignment was to make a drawing from this group of essentially black and white objects using color, line, and surface metaphorically.  Choosing what to emphasize and identifying issues and ideas about the role of technology in their lives was a major part of the assignment, and, at times, it became necessary to depart from observational reality to make visible their personal point of view. (more…)