Lee Collings

Date of Award

2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Carr, Emily

Area of Concentration

Creative Writing

Abstract

This work takes the form of a digital poetry collage, made using a free online software called PhotoPea. An Artist's Statement breaking down the theory, content, and process of the work follows the collage. Image editing and writing was done by Lee Collings. The photography of this work was taken by artist Javi Nuñez, a former resident advisor and proud NCF dropout. The Eating Things: A Site-Specific Creative Study of Consent and Disability Progression was created in order to explicitly perceive the systematic, disabling and nonconsensual violences alleged in the New College student and work environment during the Pandemic of Fall 2020 and Spring 2021. Many of these alleged violences include the systematic sustained underfunding of departments like Student Life and Housing, which are essential to high quality of life on college campuses in the United States. The romantic relationship of two transgender men-loving-men is the foregrounded intimacy in the work, along with breaking down binaries in which men are excluded from softness and love. The systematic violences of New College are represented within the work as the evisceration of grammar, the plurality of voice within off-putting images in the home environment of campus, the chronicle of injury against the ecological and the human body, and the investigation of how extended medical crises affect the body's relationship to intimacy in an environment of systematic worker abuse through meter. The nature of the Artist Statement is that it is the presentation of an ongoing process, and a timeline for the completion of the work in preparation for publication outside NCF is presented.

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