I have been working on my own personal AP Inquiry, despite the fact that I am not going to get any AP credit. My inquiry relates to aging. My feelings about getting older are complicated. I've lost my parents, and I am living by myself, getting older by the minute.
TOP LEFT: These pieces are signs for the childhood farms of my parents. My father grew up on a sheep ranch, and my mother's family dry farmed hay and alfalfa. Both families worked very hard, and spent a great deal of time improving their homes, and their land. Both farms no longer exist. My mom's family sold the land, and it was paved over to build an office complex with a parking lot. I think of all of the time that my grandparents spent, tending to gardens. They picked and bottled fruit. There is nothing left. They took the land from the Ute tribe. Our property rights are questionable. We purchase homes and property, but it's not really ours in the long run.
TOP RIGHT: This is an homage to a true love. During college, he sent me a book from Paris. The inscription was signed with much love. The book was "Les Braves Gens Ne Courent Pas Les Rues, et Autres Nouvelles". The phrase "much love" always reminds me of longing, and of long distance love. It reminds me of a marriage that I refused.
BOTTOM LEFT: Getting old means that you have to take a large assortment of medications. Also, your dental care isn't covered by insurance. I made a medicine cabinet to house ceramic pills, and lost teeth. I am now diabetic, which means I have to inject my body with insulin on a regular basis. I also take sleeping pills during the school year.
BOTTOM RIGHT: I never married. It is a cause for wonder. Would my life have been different if I would have married my college boyfriend? Undoubtedly, it would have been completely different.
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