When I stood to write this final journal (yes, stood …I’ve worked at a standing desk for years), I struggled with how best to end this exercise in public journaling: would it be a final personal narrative, or a reflection on the project itself, or something more esoteric? In the […]
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I can’t believe the semester is almost over!!! This journey has been so rewarding but so exhausting at times. And I’m happy we are getting to a point where we get to wrap things up, look at what we created and present it to other people. I feel like my […]
I found myself feeling overwhelmed again this week, between unpacking and leading two projects between my classes. But I sat with that feeling for a while, and then I started a plan to make these next two weeks more manageable. In our group meeting tonight I had the idea for […]
Last week, we discussed some of the design decisions for the website and I implemented them. I changed the fonts for the headers and the text body. I also changed the colors, since we decided to have dark backgrounds with white text instead of the white background with black text […]
This last week has been focused on research. Yes, I’m still learning about my subject. It’s been challenging for me, putting my notes into a functional read. However, we now have an agreed visual mechanism we refer to as a “card.” Each card can support an image, several headers, and […]
This month has been particularly hectic in my personal life as we’ve been moving to a new apartment. We’re saying goodbye to our studio of 13 years (our first–and until very recently only–home in New York City). So this past week I’ve been feeling extra concerned I’m not delivering enough […]
Fun with Images I have been moving between research that is reading and research that is visual. I’ve found several images of the Worth Memorial location which show the site in such a way that you can compare that historical reference to its current state. This is fascinating to me […]
I finally found time this past weekend to visit my cemetery location in person. Even before the pandemic I never spent that much time downtown, but I have visited City Hall Park numerous times since moving here (13 years ago). What struck me most was how little I had paid […]
