Synaptic

By Colbe Cruz ’26

For the final course project, students were invited to produce a creative response to or interpretation of one of our course texts that demonstrated both careful engagement with the original literary text and creative thinking and skill. Colbe chose to create a multimedia response to Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in the voice of Dorian’s portrait just before the final climactic moment at the novel’s end.

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By Luciana Laidlaw ’26

In this project, Lucy orchestrates a collage of her videos over time that resonates with themes in our LAS 410 Ecotones course. In addition, we appreciate her artist’s statement, which interweaves the visual vignettes with intertextual music to demonstrate connections to Thoreau’s Walden and perspectives of beauty where “profound experiences often come from places of familiarity.” We also appreciate her integrating herself in the video as part of nature.

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By Sophie Kruger ’24

In this class, students design and implement an art exhibition of their own creation based on a thesis or cohesive idea. Sophie created a large-scale painting installation examining the relationships built with coworkers at a local restaurant and the profound loss when its owner passed away and the restaurant closed. Over the three-week exhibition, Sophie cut up the main panel and each day painted over the original image with white paint effectively representing the process of dealing with loss.

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By Andrew Mahaffey ’28

In my CIV 110 course, I changed the historical “Soundtrack of My Life” paper into a video project. Students create their own soundtrack utilizing the music that illustrates the most meaningful moments of their lives thus far through song. They choose about five songs and then weave the soundtrack of their life together as narrator. Andrew’s creativity and professionalism shine through not just the editing process, but the overall journey he takes his viewers through as he depicts the many ways in which music delivers “pure joy and happiness” and “connects the whole world.”

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