The Mistaken Belief That If You Obscure Your Past, It Won't Affect Your Children's Futures; Or I Love You, Grandma, But We've Learned Some Fucked-Up Things

Creator

Madeleine Cherr, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

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Creation Date

10-1-2018

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2022

Major

EFS

Faculty / Course

Travess Smalley, Design

Materials + Techniques

Inkjet printing, copy paper, tissue paper, embroidery floss

Student Narrative

This project is partly an exploration of how WW2 and secondarily pre-war anti-Jewish pogroms affected my family, and also partly autobiographical. In this, I try to outline the process and discomfort of learning details of my family's ethnicity and wartime trauma that my grandmother hid from her husband and children.