An Ode to My Aunties: Melted Into the Pot

Authors

Ava Buccino, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

11-1-2022

Description

Entry for the 9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, March 02, 2023, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Andre Lee Bassuet.

Keywords

artists' books; Baker & Whitehill

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2026

Major

Experimental and Foundation Studies

Faculty / Course

Haley MacKeil

Materials + Techniques

paper pulp, pen

Student Narrative

My project is a dive into assimilation in my family. I am half Syrian but sometimes I do not feel like I am because of the effort by my ancestors to assimilate. Its hard to try to reconnect with my culture too because of 911 which my father was in, and the civil war taking place in there. I feel like the only part of my culture left is the food.

Recommended Citation

Buccino, Ava; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "An Ode to My Aunties: Melted Into the Pot" (2022). 9th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2023. 30.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest9th2023/30