Express

Empathy

Physical Prototyping

Unerasable is a series of monuments celebrating the solidarity, defiance, and resilience that the queer experience holds. We do this by gaining individual perspectives from Queer People of Boston through interviews. We are using silhouettes aesthetically inspired by the work of Kara Walker. These stories that are small and unnoticeable, thus making these stories hidden. We are bringing them forward and making them Unerasable

Over the last couple of weeks, I have increased my skills in physical prototyping. We made our final by using a stencil laser cut out of cardboard, which we then spray chalked over. Our plaque was made by painting a board and then engraving it into the wood with the laser cutter. I grew in the ways I express, as well as experience empathy. I had to take multiple people's perspectives, with likely internal bias, and combine them all into one unbiased writing. I was also tasked with distilling how our client felt, and expressing that in street art. I have been challenged with rapid prototyping while our idea is also rapidly changing. I also greatly improved in time management due to our ideas changing many times, and us adapting with even less time. I think that this OI was very beneficial to my growth both as a NuVu student and as a community member.

Concept Development