Themes/Groupings
- Traveling to unknown or faraway or new or mysterious places
- Maps and cartography, ELI5 (Molly)
- The Party Express, ticket & train whistle (Phoebe)
- Gregor McGregor, ELI5 and performance (David)
- Midnight NYC (John)
- Highway to Hell (John)
- Hotels Across the Country (John)
- Power of remembrance
- How memory works, ELI5 & performance (Phoebe)
- Easter, 1996 (Gabrielle)
- Goodnight, Soldier (Gabrielle)
- Short-Term Memory (John)
- Picture of the Stars, story and image (John)
- Juxtapositions (Sarah)
- Love in its many different incarnations like bad love, funny love, hurtful love, love that we will never forget, love that we wish we could get back
- Hotels Across the Country (John) & the original drawing by Paige
- Lolita (Paige)
- 3 Dates & a Wedding, the whole story but also the arrangement of the cards on the board (Gabrielle)
- The Origin of Love, Story #5 (Molly)
- Adam and Eve (Molly)
- You & Me (John)
- “Love is…” Juxtapositions (Gabrielle)
- Poem about mom in Story #3, The Land Before Time (Omar)
- Live forever (Bailey)
- Once in the Highlands, Story #4 (Kimmy)
- Don’t Forget Your Mission, Story #3 (Kimmy)
- A Kiss for the Heart to Grow, Story #1 (Kimmy)
- Us, Story #4 (Paige)
- Short-Term Memory (John)
- Spirituality & Religion
- Gnosticism (Sofia)
- Syrian refugee crisis (Carina)
- Feng shui, ELI5 & performance (Paige)
- Cosmogeny (Sofia)
- Historical figures, groups, events and its interaction with the present
- Gregor McGregor (David)
- Black Panther Party, ELI5 & performance (Kimmy)
- Syrian refugee crisis, ELI5 & performance (Carina)
- Maps and cartography, ELI5 (Molly)
- The Federalist Papers, ELI5 & performance (Sarah)
- The Baker, senses (Bailey)
- We have a slight obsession with food, especially weird seemingly out-of-place food
- Bailey’s homemade Roman-era bread (Bailey)
- Brownies with Raisins (Phoebe)
- Tea with nutmeg (Sofia)
- Whipped cream with red pepper flakes (Carina)
- Cocoa powder & salt (Maddie)
- Story #1, Kraft (Omar)
Objects from My Own Work
- Story #4: Short-Term Memory, Object 4: Remember Me, Please
- Juxtapositions: Hotels Across the Country
— There’s something really powerful about the way in which we remember the loves we’ve experienced—like the loves we never had, the loves that hurt us, the loves that made us happy, or sad, or cry and everything in between—no matter what we go through in life.
Objects from Other People’s Work
- 3 Dates & a Wedding (Gabrielle)
- Show, Don’t Tell: How Memory Works (Phoebe)
- Show, Don’t Tell: Hiccups (Bailey)
- Juxtapositions: “Love is…” (Gabrielle)
— I was very drawn to the way that a story changes and can be told depending on how you arrange objects, people, and your audience in space and in relation to one another.