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Teran Chapis:

BE/LONGING
 
Teran Chapis
Political Science major
 
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Wooden construction with plaster clementine
plaster, acrylic paint, wood, wood glue, nails
2022
Jewett Sculpture Court
 
 
My wooden construction for Sculpture I centers around the plaster fruit I completed for the class. Clementines were chosen to represent the Chinese New Year because it was believed they looked like the sun. They represent luck and abundance in the new year. When brought to the US, they were sometimes transported in orange train cars to announce that they had arrived for the Christmas holiday. We could all use a delivery of sunshine.
 
close up on part of a wood sculpture with wood train and orange plaster clementine sculpture
 
 
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Self Portrait 2016 // Self Portrait 2020
recycled magazines
2016, 2020
Jewett Hallway Galleries
 
Two portrait collages hung on a grayish fabric wall. The collage on the left shows a person with shoulder-length brown hair on a green background. The collage on the right shows a person with short black and pink hair on a newsprint background.
 
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Unseen
mixed media
2022
Jewett Hallway Galleries
 
close up on a pair of glasses made of clear plastic with textured lenses sitting on top of a white pedestal; a video plays through them and casts their shadow on the video projection on the wall behind them
 
This video is the best approximation of my neurological visual impairment that I can create with my limited After Effects skills. It is one of my many invisible disabilities. Just because I don't wear glasses or use a cane, that doesn't mean it's not there. I cannot truly make the invisible visible, but by showing what I see, I can ask you to wonder about what you cannot.
 
Video narrators: Katherine Adler '22, Mary Canzano '22, Zoë Owens '22
 
A white pedestal with fanciful glasses installed on it. A video is projected onto the wall just above and behind it, showing book pages and text.
 
  glasses installed in the side of a pedestal, with the lenses replaced by orange 'I got vaccinated at Gillette Stadium' pins
 
pink-framed glassed installed in the side of a white pedestal, with lenses covered in costume jewelry and metal findings
 
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Dirt Slut
mixed media
2022

Jewett Hallway Galleries

a black, red, and white collage on fabric wall. Text in the center of the collage reads 'Dirt Slut' in a swoopy font.

 

A fake band name, created by friends who sieved dirt in an Environmental Science lab for hours at time in the spring of 2021. I created art for this band, for all who love and appreciate soil.

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two portrait collages on a grayish fabric wall at left, a pedestal-based sculpture with video projection at right

 

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