Senior Studio 2020

by and by - Kierra Nguyen

This guy makes me feel things, and maybe he'll make you feel things too.

Hey! So for my 3rd gesture, I'm sharing a recording of a live stream I participated in with the Rock n' Roll Playhouse. The Rock N' Roll Playhouse is an organization that tries to get kids live music experiences by providing them with live music opportunities at hours when they would be able to experience it, namely weekends in the afternoon. I've worked some of these concerts in the past at Industry City in Brooklyn and now my friends and I did an online live stream for the kids. Below is the video recording of it, which streamed live a few days ago on Facebook. Anyway, I hope you dig it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcV3KPoSmSM

Planning on paper Materials Experiment Work in progress: original/digital adjustment

https://soundcloud.com/ayosdad/a-wednesday-poem

A Wednesday Poem (For A Young Man In Need Of Color) Following my eyes I keep leading myself to intersections: A rich oasis nestled in the hollow between scrub-mowed corn fields A stream running below a shallow arc in the road A flat horizon pulled taught across an expanse of deep clay suspended within the body of this lake a mustard invitation to the promise of green a red crescent drawn below the eye of a fish out of water… Color found at the edges of things

                                                            The Promise Of Green

  Mustard

afternoon colloquy by Kierra Nguyen

mama's backyard garden - mimi

work in progress gouache, ink, pen, collage

an ongoing project that examines how we define home spaces and how they can be remembered through a series of containers below are the first two containers one: recovered glass from Oberlin home in detritus two: seaweed and sand from Frank's Beach, Carmel, CA mailed to Ohio by mom

6 clay figurines dealing with the feeling of being knotted tied untied bound loose small and sculpted with palms

plus color colored pencils and attempts to be playful

shading many faces move towards each other double body envelope relations boundaries and separation begin to dissolve confusion!

// accumulated items inside a medicine cabinet // rumination on moving, the necessity of packing and unpacking // what we choose to take with us each time we move and what we reconcile leaving // space, it is confined // privacy and intimacy created by sorting through a box of goods, rearranging as we see fit and then returning them to the safety of being behind glass //

Typically I hate photographing things that I haven't staged or fully thought through and have never been particularly interested in documentary photography.  Recently my boyfriend and I went fishing and instead of taking photos of the surroundings as I had planned I took these photos of him telling me about how he learned to fish (competitively? Apparently there is such thing as varsity fishing I had no idea).

the winter hang transforms into a boulder when spring comes...work in progress, would <3 feedback! (:

Hello! For my second gesture, I'm posting a video that my friends, family, and I made for an online event called Live From Out There. It's a concert series that raises money for multiple musical related charities. Other artists that were on the same live stream as us include George Porter Jr (The Meters), Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), and Hiss Golden Messenger. Its a pretty cool concert event and some even cooler artists have contributed. Our stream was all songs written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. We covered China Cat Sunflower. I was drumming even though it's not my main instrument. It was super fun nonetheless. Anyway, check it out and feel free to check out the whole series on their website:  https://livefromoutthere.com/ . The full video is available here, blogger wouldn't let me embed it: here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xGY8pGSxrcdWSiIXYJoyqDcUT8DBmPEU/view?usp=sharing