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California State University, Dominguez Hills
Created: January 9, 2010
Latest Update: January 9, 2010
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Volume 37, Issue No. 1: Week of January 10, 2010:

• David's Shield, the six-pointed star.

  Hand-made memory sculpture designed to bring to mind conversations and research on the Middle East. Particularly Israel and Arab resistance to Israel.

• Rose Necklace

  Crocheted for a friend to remind her there's good stuff going on, too.

• Nature Governed?

  Scanned image of a tomato plant. It reminded me of a halloween ghost when I scanned it. What might it represent in relation to issues of age? of poverty? of land? of optimism?

  Consider:

  • age - delicacy of what look like limbs, the darkness of what might be a head? skull? that then gives way to an eye we can see right through, like a skull?
  • poverty - unnatural thinness, adequacy of diet? but onw might see apparent joy and celebration in the pose?
  • land - the importance of land to produce food, and the dependence wrought by not having land on another who may control food and necessaries
  • optimism - a scary, dancing death's head? or a clebration of life with those who went before us - consider the mexican Day of the Dead

  Are there issues of balance in these possible interpretations? Can you find a natural object that lends itself to ideas and issues that we all face today?

  I could imagine that this creature is on wheels. I wonder what that would tell me.

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