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Title: Digital mini art book: "Connection"
Creator: Ilagan, Hannah
Date Created and/or Issued: 2021
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives
Collection: School of Social Ecology Pandemic Histories Archive collection (University of California, Irvine)
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: With this digital mini book, I tried to capture the common emotions, experiences, and thoughts people have experienced throughout the pandemic. Before the pandemic, three of my closest friends and I had to live together the following year; since the University of California, Irvine evacuated campus in March 2020, we–along with the rest of the world–found our plans derailed. And as distance learning continued, we have had time to reflect on ourselves, our goals, and our outlook on the world. I asked my friends to write down three to five emotions that represented their past year as well as the first two to three emotions that come to mind. I am not a professional artist, so while I tried my best to faithfully interpret their responses, the final pieces turned out a bit more abstract. I hope that viewers can sense the emotions in the artwork and find themselves interpreting these pieces as it relates to their experience during this COVID-19 pandemic. The first piece is titled “Connection.” My first friend listed “grey, orange, red, violet, and yellow” as her five colors. She wrote “anxiousness, appreciation, and longing” as her three representative emotions, and included “stress, loss of connection, reflection, gloomy, and gratitude” as other keywords that come to mind when thinking about this past year. Through this piece, I tried to incorporate the more vivid colors in the center, with grey and black seeping in from the corners. At the bottom of the page, a hand is reaching out towards the colorful landscape. Unlike the hand at the top, its color is more faded and messily shaded to represent the negative emotions. Both hands are reaching towards each other to represent connection, not just between the person’s sadder state and happier state, but also between themselves and the world.
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Format: jpg
Identifier: as-222_se195w_ilagan_art0001.jpg
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Relation: AS-222. University of California, Irvine, School of Social Ecology Pandemic Histories Archive collection

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