The final finished short form writing pieces for my AHS capstone. There is a sci-fi short story, a fantasy short story, and a poetry zine (in pictures and text only form). My goal was to explore a wide variety of short form writing. There is also a 'story builder' guide that was used for an interactive activity during the exhibit.

More about my initial goals and form: I aimed to write multiple pieces of short form writing (fiction stories & poetry), specifically to explore genre blending and unusual forms of writing. I’m inspired by writers who have transitioned narrators in the middle of paragraphs, have poetic descriptions with cadence in the middle of science fiction, and other unique forms. I want to take time to explore having a personal writing style/trademark while feeling more comfortable in the writing basics.

I produced a portfolio of various stories and poems I wrote during the semester. I also listed the works I was inspired by at the end of each piece. I was successful in my goal to create 8 short form writing pieces for the semester, as I wrote 2 short stories and 9 poems. This was not for my final submission, but I additionally wrote at least something every day in a physical notebook - poetry, thoughts on what I’m reading, or story ideas. This inspired my writing and served as a free brainstorming space. Since I was more comfortable with poems, I wanted to share these in a coherent theme and I compiled them into a zine. This was combined with matching pictures drawn by another student (Dylan Merzenich). The short stories I wanted to be more exploratory and aimed to get more breadth in topic and style. A stretch goal was to make a guide for how to create short stories or generate ideas, which I ended up completing as an interactive activity for exhibit.

A booklet containing the score for the F.W. Olin Overture, arranged for brass quintet, and the program notes for its premier at Olin College in May 2003.

Visual description of working at Bikes Not Bombs.

An Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) project featuring a book which alternates pages containing abstract shadowy shapes and reflective sheets that mirror said shapes.

Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) project consisting of a book whose pages are all bound to each other and folded in such a way that the book opens in a fashion similar to the motion of an accordion instrument when performed.

A scrapbook covering the history of Olin College, starting from 1997 and ending at 2005. The scrapbook contains photographs of student activities, faculty, and other aspects of Olin College life. There second half of the scrapbook contains several pages where Olin members contributed to a discussion about various topics by all writing on the page, similar to a yearbook.

An Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) book filled with photographs of baking cups artfully arranged in unusual environments for comedic effect.

An Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) project consisting of a book with photographs of campus life and text written by students describing their life a Olin College.

A student photography project fictionalizing several mundane objects as exotic locations.

A student art project consisting of a scrapbook with images and descriptions of objects found around the Olin College campus that have been abandoned by their original owners or are otherwise placed in peculiar locations.

A book pairing photos of people with photos of food.