Category: Research Binder

A fear that I recently became aware and anxious of is the thought of receptive bilingualism. Hungarian is my first language and it was the language that my family used to speak at home. Since I grew up in the states, this language barrier made it difficult for me to learn English in elementary school,… Continue reading Talismans Research – Tas Csikos

Write about the main idea: The main thing that I profoundly want to avoid in my future is a broken home/family. This is important to me because of how I grew up. I grew up in a household where everyone was close, my parents, brother and I were always together. There was never a distance… Continue reading Christina DeLuca: Talismans (writing and visual research)

This is a word document that can be downloaded. I spent more time than I thought I would on the collage and wanted it to exist as I made it originally.

My object is a blue ceramic bell with a crystal clapper on a metal chain. The bell is an object used to produce a sound, often the attention of another. It’s technically a percussion instrument. A bell can represent many things in my opinion. One of the first associations that comes to my mind is… Continue reading Lily FauntLeRoy – Project 1, Part 1: Writing Assignment

My object is a ceramic chicken, which I believe is technically a rooster, that is designed for home decoration. It has a tag on the bottom stating that it is a sample from Tiwan and was created in 1982. The chicken is presumably designed to sit on a shelf as a decoration, which would bring… Continue reading Ben Kaller Sketches

The object I have chosen to work with is a squirrel, which is a very common mammal native to a large portion of North America as well as small sections of Europe and Africa. According to one source, squirrels can represent good things to come, fun, positivity, change, and resourcefulness. I think that squirrels carry… Continue reading “Accumulations” – Maizy Troxell

In a direct, literal sense, my object is a boot. It is a sturdy piece of footwear that covers the foot and ankle designed to keep those body parts covered and warm. However, with it being red and having a holly on it, the boot can represent the holidays, especially Christmas and could be denoted… Continue reading 

The object I have decided is a scaled replica of a 1930’s Ford Model A, Wisconsin Bell Telephone Truck. I think the Bell truck represents a significant step in the development of transportation as the Model A and its successor, the Model T, were one of the first in the category of affordable and mass… Continue reading Accumulations: Model A Ford