a negative thing, but I think it can also be a positive thing.
Kate and I have known each other for four years, and we both decided to come to graduate school in Austin. The transition was a bit rough, but it was good to have each other during that time.
While we had meticulously picked out every other amenity in our house, we still had no coffee table. We ultimately decided to make a mosaic table to represent our transition, our lives, and us. Mosaics are fractured pieces of glass that come together to form a whole. Our lives have been fractured in order to come here. But this table represents our journey here: all these strange, arbitrary fragmented things, (paint, glass, Al Gore, different places, insecurities about moving, big life changes) coming together to become the center of our house and new life here.
My roommate Katelyn and I decided that since we had just made perhaps the biggest transition we’ve ever made, it was only appropriate that we did our project on our move to Austin. Donna Haraway writes in “The Cyborg Manifesto” about compartmentalization: the process of putting our lives into separate compartments. Our lives become fractured; bits and pieces, which work separately, but together, make up a whole. In some cases this can be seen as
Our Story
