Progress

     In the past week my Mayflower person, Fran, and I have continued to talk about what her vision for her book is-- and in an effort to speed along the process, I made her a CD of songs that I thought might have themes she would like to explore, as well as found some life quotes she may like to use. She had a few Rollins students do a project about her, and gave me the essay they wrote, which I think might be nice information to use in her album and take sections from. She also gave me a letter she wrote upon her return to Germany post-WWII, and I also chose some sections from that that she may like to use (with the intent of making the book somewhat of a living letter to her family). She has chosen to make it more auto-biographical, but wants to focus on her middle ages onward rather than her childhood and the Holocaust. I have been searching for some pictures for her to use from places she has traveled to, and also finally located the original Howard Johnson logo that was used while she worked there. I purchased some materials for her that she may like to use in her book as well. I get the impression that she wants it to be more artistic (she is very into the arts and painting and theatre) so I am researching some ways to make that happen, while also preserving the artifacts she has chosent to include, such as old photos, newsprint articles, documents, etc.
     I have also been thinking about my book as well, and in working on Fran's have come to find that I want to change my approach a bit too- and since I am using a Rollins yearbook I have come to like the idea ofmaking my final project a bit more personal, and more about my values and what I hope to share or instill into the subsequent classes of Rollins. As I looked through the class of 2004s pictures (prior to ripping them out) it occurred to me that the yearbook doesnt actually portray one single year in time, the relationships displayed on the pages were years in the making--and is the epitome of memory and photo, and I relly enjoyed that-- and liked the freedom it gave me to be less literal with the assignment. So instead, I still want to explore the different avenues of memory through images, but I want to do them as relate to me and my memories, or what I hope to remember-- knowing that they too have been years in the making. I want to explore some of teh things in my life that I have kind of put on the backburner in terms of "discovery", because the reality is that 2013 is a hell of alot closer than I think.