Candlemas Curation

Sarah Graham Using a scrap of recycled denim, this embroidery hoop depicts a highway intersection to explore urban mapping. The stitching illustrates the practice of highway and railway construction which frequently rips apart and makes bumpy pre-existing communities- disproportionally low-income, minority neighbourhoods. Despite the daily commute on smooth roads, infrastructure overlays a far more complex and bumpy everyday experience of neighbourhoods flattened, disappeared, and divided. The flat and smooth texture of the beige road suggests the seamless passing through of intersections. Meanwhile the raised, bumpy knots illustrate the unaccounted disruption… Read More »Crossroads of a City

Gabriella Hudson  My mum once told me that I am harsh on people. That I have high expectations of how people ought to behave. I asked her about it the other night, and she denied ever saying it – probably thinking that I had taken offence. She wasn’t wrong; at first, I had. Click Below to Return to the Curation Front Page:

  Content Warning & Trigger Warning This project researches and circles around COVID-19. The content displayed interacts with the current pandemic. Please be advised that the following content might inflict distress and anxiety.   I will forever be ungrateful for Corona, it has robbed us of our lives, our loved ones and many more things, but it also has provided us with opportunities. If not for Corona I probably would still be in China, would most likely not study at the University of St Andrews and would have probably not… Read More »The Spread, Three Nations – Their Approaches

YJ Seo   We shall wake up in another reality   A travesty of frustration   A kid that never sleeps at night   Learn not to want the things we want   A war of emotions   Take me back, just back to black   Epilogue “What is bad for the heart is good for art” – Jandy Nelson   Click Below to Return to the Curation Front Page:

Achille Pedespan With these poems in collage form, my goal is to work on language while reflecting on the different ways the theme of global pandemic is explored in several daily British newspapers: The Scottish Daily Express, The I, The Herald, The Guardian and The Times. I chose to study journalistic language through poetic inquiry, inspired by Jakobson’s poetic function in which the writer focuses on the message itself, for its own sake. Therefore, poetry allowed me to question the language of global pandemics. My work dismantles media representation and… Read More »Poetry x Daily Press x Global Pandemics

Audrey Leung From a young age, I frequently heard adults around me express this phrase about my home city of Hong Kong: “住不起”（zhu4bu4qi3）, meaning: “can’t afford to live”. The city suffers a severe housing crisis, a result of the broken land tenure system the government has for long clung onto and refused to amend, all in the name of windfall land revenues. Foreign and local photographers alike have often regarded Hong Kong as a “photographer’s paradise”. Densely packed, cookie-cutter, and grid-like public housing estates are certainly considered to contribute to… Read More »Your Home is My “Instagram Aesthetic”: How Instagram Fetishization Obscures the Hong Kong Housing Crisis

Caroline Hinson Wikipedia Sets the Stage ‘Codes and conventions of teen films vary depending on the cultural context of the film, but they can include proms, alcohol, illegal substances, high school, parties, virginity, social groups and cliques, fitting in, peer pressure, and popular culture. The classic codes and conventions of teen film come from American films. The average age of an actor playing an American teenager is 22.’[1] It is convenient that most everyone on earth has been a teenager. It is even more convenient that these hybrid teenagers of… Read More »We’re All [In] This Together: American High School as Soft Power

Ella Matza   ‘Scotland vs. Switzerland, battle of the sweets’    ‘A wee British ecosystem’    ‘Self portrait as my bedside table’    ‘Model UN after party’   ‘Clashing identities’    ‘Global explorers’    ‘Beauty 350’    “Part of the potency of common sense… is to rule out our thinking any differently about the world. That is, to subjugate our own mental capacity to imagine the world otherwise.” – Noam Chomsky    This photo essay was an exploration into how capitalist commoditization and advertising invades the private sphere and plays… Read More »Commodifying the Everyday Self