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Esther Jung:

Remember a Place Not Here
 
Esther Jung
Economics major, Studio Art minor
 

Spending my final year at Wellesley, I've found myself searching for the person I've become through the past four years and into my future. In the fall I drew towering hands-- grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and wandering. This spring I attempted to capture myself filming through our campus, but there was too much missing. It felt like I was capturing the motions of being on campus rather than the self that had gone through Wellesley.

 
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Shelter
oil on canvas, gesso
Jewett Hallway Galleries
 
 
painting with white border and various blocks of color, largely abstract but reminiscent of a floor plan, hanging on a gray fabric wall
 

When I was tasked with painting a map, I moved away from campus, the one place where I "have my own room." Instead I chose to paint the space that defined the pandemic for me-- my sister's room. When she was having a hard time, I'd try to get closer to her by visiting her room. While it isn't anywhere close to Wellesley, I find it is a space that defines a great part of my Wellesley experience and the person I've become.

close up on a painting with blocks of color mostly in purples, greenish yellows, and blues

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