Tender Buttons

using experiment 1:

diamond earrings
glitter and gold.
status and style.
beauty piercing flesh.

eggs
sizzle. sizzle. pop.
slime to solid.
poultry to protein.
flip. sizzle. eat.

basement
dark and desolate.
cold and clammy.
mold and musk.

Lesson 6- Comic Strip

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This Comic Strip represents my family's journey from Ireland and Italy, to Williamsport, PA (where my parents grew up and then eventually married), after they got married, my dad became the National Sales Director for Shop Vac Vacuum cleaners, and my parents stayed in Williamsport and had my sisters and I. I think images are much more powerful than words, because you can actually see what is going on, instead of having to make your own inferences about the ideas.

The CREATE Center for Women

For my project, I designed a high-rise community for up-and-coming professional young woman.

The C.R.E.A.T.E. Center for Women

stands for:

Community for Representing Empowered, Artisitic, and Talented Entrepreneuers

The purpose of this Center will be to not only house young professional women in metropolitan areas, but to create a close network of friends, business contacts, and personal services that will encourage the growth of women in their early twenties to mid thirties. With career services, self-awareness and personal growth classes, and other specific programs for the tenants, the women that live in the CREATE Center have a unique opportunity to empower themselves through working and living with other talented women.

My design aesthetic came from ads I found in my favorite magazine, NYLON. When I found the girl in the box, I thought that it was interesting that you couldn't see what her body looked like. To me, she represented a strong, well built woman, who wasn't being judged by her body. In her hand, I placed a early 1900s looking woman, who is holding the sign to the building which says
"Break out of the pattern." I added more magazine pictures of a town in the foreground of the picture. I think that the CREATE Center sitting up so high on the hill also represents the idea that these women are in control of where they are living. They are overseeing what is going on within the town.

The pictures on the building represent the women inside. Each square has a woman enjoying her favorite activities, whether reading, being at the beach, or having a drink with friends; the pictures represent, happy, well respected women of the community.

Sappho Translation

Perennial as the grass;
so love burns in my heart.
The coldest night would do me no harm
as the thought that your eyes
may meet mine keeps me warm.

With courage, he speaks,
gleaming like a golden knight
in the glow of the fire.
With far more courage than my bones possess,
He makes you hum, like an angel, soft and sweet.

If only a clever word would come to mind.
Death, by heartache, is at my door.
Yet, still no words will come.
With your beauty comes silence,
which shall be my fatal flaw.

About Me:

1.Katie McDermott
2.I'm a senior, and my major is Media Studies with a minor in Creative Non-Fiction.
3.I was born and raised in Williamsport, Pennsylvania; which is the home of the Little League World Series.
4.Anything on Bravo, Project Runway, Top Chef… I'm a big fan of Iron Chef as well.
5.Mayonnaise. Yuck.
6.House of Leaves. Definitely one to check out.
7.My junior prom, I went with my ex-boyfriend a week after we broke up, talk about awkward.
8.Fairly comfortable.
9. I feel like I have to work harder to be taken seriously.
10.Katemcd.blogspot.com