This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Blooming Garages over 3 Decades Old


There's a garage up in the upper west side of Manhattan that has been the base of a lotus garden for about three decades now. The Lotus Garden, a tranquil spot nestled on 97th street between Broadway and West End Avenue, came to be when a man from Manchuria asked if he could put his lotuses that he had been growing on a tub in the garden while it was being prepped.  Now 30 years later, after efforts of preserving and numerous hands in charge of it, the Lotus Garden stays. Generations have been maintaining this spot. 

 Check out the article for more info on who's hands been in charge of the garden and how to visit!

 Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/garden/the-garage-that-bloomed.html?WT.mc_id=D-NYT-MKTG-MOD-90187-07-04-PH&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_c=${CAMPAIGN_ID}#

 -Nova
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