Colbert Ferry - April 2021
Note, March 2023:
Colbert Ferry is the result of a one-year senior thesis project for my BFA at the University of Michigan. This project is a combination of my various academic interests and artistic/design skills. I am passionate about sustainability, but after taking a class called "green indigeneity," I realized my engagement or "calling" to care about these things was shallow. I started to ask myself why -- what about landscape/nature was I taught growing up, what landscapes do I come from? Colbert Ferry explores environmental histories, politics, and attempts to reveal to audiences that landscapes, much like paper collage, is a construction and layering of history, use, knowledge, and value that we perceive as a culture.
With this project I made a 4 - minute experimental animation using 12 key paper collages. I also made a corresponding 20 page booklet for audience members to examine their own relationships to land.
As of March 2023 I am revising and redeveloping this animation. I really didn't have enough time or focus during my senior year to make it as strong, nuanced, and clear as I would like it to be. I will be revising and reposting it this summer!
Colbert Ferry is the result of a one-year senior thesis project for my BFA at the University of Michigan. This project is a combination of my various academic interests and artistic/design skills. I am passionate about sustainability, but after taking a class called "green indigeneity," I realized my engagement or "calling" to care about these things was shallow. I started to ask myself why -- what about landscape/nature was I taught growing up, what landscapes do I come from? Colbert Ferry explores environmental histories, politics, and attempts to reveal to audiences that landscapes, much like paper collage, is a construction and layering of history, use, knowledge, and value that we perceive as a culture.
With this project I made a 4 - minute experimental animation using 12 key paper collages. I also made a corresponding 20 page booklet for audience members to examine their own relationships to land.
As of March 2023 I am revising and redeveloping this animation. I really didn't have enough time or focus during my senior year to make it as strong, nuanced, and clear as I would like it to be. I will be revising and reposting it this summer!
Paper Collage stills for the film | November 2020 - March 2021
