Remediation #1
A bib for a bad ass baby.
Social commentary about the nature of childhood and violent fantasies is optional and wide spread.
My intention here was not to make a social point---merely to make a bib for a bad ass baby. Whether it's the inherent ability of English Majors to BS just about anything or the natural forces of juxtaposing images in a way that I found humorous, it was possible to look deeper at this than simply something that was funny.
Just about everyone who saw it laughed first and then began to deconstruct the nature of violence and innocence or the ways in which violent play is a part of childhood. One person said they hoped the Trojan Horse between the girl's legs wasn't some kind of commentary on female sexuality.
It wasn't---it was just what I had left. The boy's cat got the heads of the hydra and I wanted to mirror a "steed" or "familiar" of some sort with her.
Social commentary about the nature of childhood and violent fantasies is optional and wide spread.
My intention here was not to make a social point---merely to make a bib for a bad ass baby. Whether it's the inherent ability of English Majors to BS just about anything or the natural forces of juxtaposing images in a way that I found humorous, it was possible to look deeper at this than simply something that was funny.
Just about everyone who saw it laughed first and then began to deconstruct the nature of violence and innocence or the ways in which violent play is a part of childhood. One person said they hoped the Trojan Horse between the girl's legs wasn't some kind of commentary on female sexuality.
It wasn't---it was just what I had left. The boy's cat got the heads of the hydra and I wanted to mirror a "steed" or "familiar" of some sort with her.
Remediation #2: RAFT Song
In creating a song from Juliet to Nurse, I decided to take a Lana Del Rey song that's about a rather charged relationship. Since Romeo and Juliet's relationship has the kind of intense adolescent fire that comes from inexperience and desperate desire, this seemed fitting.
In many ways, this was less about her love for Romeo and more about the obstacles that were in her way, which is fitting since they really don't know each other well.
Juliet to Nurse
Song about the Perfect Man
to the tune of Off to the Races by Lana Del Rey
My perfect man hates my dad but
I can't deny the way his pilgrim hands
captify me, He has me by my heart
He doesn't have a Capulet past
he doesn't mind that I have a crass cousin duelist
he loves me even when we are far apart
Swimming pool hide from the guard
sneak in my room window after dark
Marry me in the friar's cell
Gotta promise not to tell, cuz our daddies ain't gonna like....yeah
My moon and my stars, make jealous the sun
Be a good Montague, change my name, hon
My moon and my stars, makes jealous the sun
Give me that love's vow, gimme that vow
I'm off with a montague, cutie too, making me his wifey, too
hiding our love from all, cause he's gonna be wanted
Undaunted, chasing all my cousins and I can't get out of my house
cuz my daddy, got mad he, better get here and consumate me
I'm his wifey, lifey, drinking all this vial he
kissed me on my open mouth
when he thought I was dead
In many ways, this was less about her love for Romeo and more about the obstacles that were in her way, which is fitting since they really don't know each other well.
Juliet to Nurse
Song about the Perfect Man
to the tune of Off to the Races by Lana Del Rey
My perfect man hates my dad but
I can't deny the way his pilgrim hands
captify me, He has me by my heart
He doesn't have a Capulet past
he doesn't mind that I have a crass cousin duelist
he loves me even when we are far apart
Swimming pool hide from the guard
sneak in my room window after dark
Marry me in the friar's cell
Gotta promise not to tell, cuz our daddies ain't gonna like....yeah
My moon and my stars, make jealous the sun
Be a good Montague, change my name, hon
My moon and my stars, makes jealous the sun
Give me that love's vow, gimme that vow
I'm off with a montague, cutie too, making me his wifey, too
hiding our love from all, cause he's gonna be wanted
Undaunted, chasing all my cousins and I can't get out of my house
cuz my daddy, got mad he, better get here and consumate me
I'm his wifey, lifey, drinking all this vial he
kissed me on my open mouth
when he thought I was dead
Remediation #3: Ancient Artifacts
Paintings and such don't do a lot for me. I'm a storyteller at heart and, while there are exceptions, the subject matters for paintings don't, to me, tend to tell much of a story. Or at least not one I'm interested in.
Artifacts from ancient cultures, however, fascinate me.
Or even from modern cultures that are very different.
Since these aren't, usually, simply asthetic pieces, they speak a great deal about these cultures. The fact that the pots and cups from these people have dietiies of the harvest or of love on them show that these ideas were a part of their everyday life. When everything you have is hand-made, perhaps you spend more time making them meaningful.
I've got a cabinet full of generic cups of a very different types. They don't mean anything---they're merely useful.
Utility, because these items are so readily available, has become their hallmark and the idea of beauty in the objects we use every day has, in most ways, gone to the wayside.
So I wondered, as I looked at these pieces and had a running dialogue going through my head about them, what must a paper written by a future student read like when it looked at artifacts of our own time?
Joshne Cortez
Age 9
Harley Davidson Middle School
8th of August, 2746
A survey of the Artifacts of the Great American Society, Circa 1776-2105, ending with the culmination of the 4th Great War and the Dave and Busters Accord of 2105.
Unlike many of the civilzations we've studied so far this year, the Great American Society seems to have eschewed the use of dieties and other festivals on their utensiles.
We believe they had a fondness for simple, geometric shapes, allowing the ocassional floral pattern to intrude on the blandness of these artifacts. It's believed that the glassenware cup with a single ring of silvery metal encircling about 1/2 inch below the lip of the cup was kept for the head of the household, which was traditionally the father but later fell into a more fluid arrangment before the Children's Rebellion of 2076 created a society in which children below the age of 25 were diefied much the way cats were in Ancient Egypt.
The more colorful cup, that has a stylized camel on it, is believed to have been reserved for the children, much as the boxes of food they ate in the mornings. These boxes were decorated with various mental tests to keep the children sharp and train them for the mazes of the cities in which they would live.
We've been unable to determine the strange variety of colored plates with nearly photorealistic drawings of people in a variety of situations. Due to the titles and some of the subjects being identical across kinds of plates, we believe these plates were a kind of primitive storytelling they engaged with when not chatting on their TVs or playing with the dishwashers they kept in thier pockets.
Since so little is left of their civilization, we may never really know why they did anything.
Artifacts from ancient cultures, however, fascinate me.
Or even from modern cultures that are very different.
Since these aren't, usually, simply asthetic pieces, they speak a great deal about these cultures. The fact that the pots and cups from these people have dietiies of the harvest or of love on them show that these ideas were a part of their everyday life. When everything you have is hand-made, perhaps you spend more time making them meaningful.
I've got a cabinet full of generic cups of a very different types. They don't mean anything---they're merely useful.
Utility, because these items are so readily available, has become their hallmark and the idea of beauty in the objects we use every day has, in most ways, gone to the wayside.
So I wondered, as I looked at these pieces and had a running dialogue going through my head about them, what must a paper written by a future student read like when it looked at artifacts of our own time?
Joshne Cortez
Age 9
Harley Davidson Middle School
8th of August, 2746
A survey of the Artifacts of the Great American Society, Circa 1776-2105, ending with the culmination of the 4th Great War and the Dave and Busters Accord of 2105.
Unlike many of the civilzations we've studied so far this year, the Great American Society seems to have eschewed the use of dieties and other festivals on their utensiles.
We believe they had a fondness for simple, geometric shapes, allowing the ocassional floral pattern to intrude on the blandness of these artifacts. It's believed that the glassenware cup with a single ring of silvery metal encircling about 1/2 inch below the lip of the cup was kept for the head of the household, which was traditionally the father but later fell into a more fluid arrangment before the Children's Rebellion of 2076 created a society in which children below the age of 25 were diefied much the way cats were in Ancient Egypt.
The more colorful cup, that has a stylized camel on it, is believed to have been reserved for the children, much as the boxes of food they ate in the mornings. These boxes were decorated with various mental tests to keep the children sharp and train them for the mazes of the cities in which they would live.
We've been unable to determine the strange variety of colored plates with nearly photorealistic drawings of people in a variety of situations. Due to the titles and some of the subjects being identical across kinds of plates, we believe these plates were a kind of primitive storytelling they engaged with when not chatting on their TVs or playing with the dishwashers they kept in thier pockets.
Since so little is left of their civilization, we may never really know why they did anything.