Alexa

Seeking the Unknown

Who doesn’t love a good mix of literature and music? This question guided me in deciding what to do for our second project of Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Literature. I went back and forth between a few ideas before landing on a spotify playlist based on my blackout poem I made from Margaret Cavendish’s “ItContinue reading “Seeking the Unknown”

The Faerie Queene x Tarot Cards

When you think of tarot cards, doesn’t your mind immediately go to The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser? No? Me either, but no doubt are you able to connect the two! For this project, I took a dive at connecting some of the characters from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Book 1, Canto 1 andContinue reading “The Faerie Queene x Tarot Cards”

The Gloom

By: Alexa Strong For this project, I decided to do a digital drawing. I was not sure what exactly I wanted to do it of, as I was between drawing something that represented Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys or a drawing representing Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I ultimately went for Mexican Gothic becauseContinue reading “The Gloom”

ARE WE WHAT WE ABSORB?

CW: mention of murder, abuse, and trauma. By: Alexa Strong There is an age-old question of: are we what we absorb? Our knowledge is solely based on what we absorb and experience as we go through life. Everything we know is from something we have read, watched, heard, discussed, etc. We are constantly evolving andContinue reading “ARE WE WHAT WE ABSORB? “

Franken-Erye

By: Alexa Strong For this project, I chose to do a digital drawing representing both Jane Eyre from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and the creature from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818 version (photos of said drawing inserted towards the end of this post). Isolation and loneliness are common themes strung deeply throughout the two books, soContinue reading “Franken-Erye”

Breaking Boundaries: Gender Identity

By: Alexa Strong “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.” – Jo March, Little Women The intricate life of a humanContinue reading “Breaking Boundaries: Gender Identity”