Spot Collaboration: Cross-Genre #3

Andy Goldsworthy

Because of Covid-19, we didn't have the luxury of having students work together in person for this last spot collaboration, which doubled as the last of the cross-genre assignments. Students were asked to integrate, or respond to, or be inspired by the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy and the poets Anna Akhmatova, Mitsuye Yamada, and Czeslaw Milosz in the work they made. Students were given about 45 minutes to put something together, however they could, while they communicated with each other via video-conference. Below are the results.

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Dahria Messina and Eden Theule, plant pots inscribed with text from books in the room by Christina Rossetti, Donna Tartt, C.S. Lewis.

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Emma Fellows, Emily Jacobo, after Andy Goldsworthy's voids and Milosz's "A Song on the End of the World."

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Emma McLaughlin, Hannah McLaughlin, Juliana Fujii, inspired by the same texts as the piece, above.

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Hannah Sapigao, Dienna Catuna, Emily Bontrager - first lines from the poems we read this semester by Yamada, Milosz, and Akhmatova [check out the whole piece here]:

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Jasmyne Bell, Johanna Nelson, Lori Lusk. Lori writes, ‘All three are stanzas from the middle of “Late Ripeness,” [by Milosz,] as seen through the perspective of Andy Goldsworthy's Voids, which became portals in a way.’

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Lavender Tonini, Zach Jimison, Anna Winters, integrating motifs from Goldsworthy and text from Milosz into a Minecraft landscape.