Author: ppehlab
A sea of scintillating blue diamonds swept back and forth on the shore. The calm whisper of the wind foretold of thunderstorms later that night, but not one soul could care less that cool day on Sand Beach. Each soft crash of the waves lulled the lazy daytrippers to sleep. The seabirds circling above sang […]
Originally from Quito, Ecuador, Lia Enriquez is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Environmental Studies and minoring in Political Science and Latin American Studies. She is passionate about climate change impacts in Latin American communities. In her free time, she enjoys latin dance, hiking and gardening. The Woodlands Cemetery in West […]
Christin Clyburn is a rising senior majoring in Economics and minoring in Sustainability & Environmental Management. She is from Washington, D.C. For her breaching experiment, she guided park visitors through an observational exercise and exposed them to evocative overhead images of the park. In doing so, she prompted participants to experience a change of perspective […]
Maira Asif is a rising senior majoring in medical anthropology. She is from Northeast Philadelphia. For her art installation, she chose to work with cardboard, wood, fake blood and different forms of sugar, starting with small packets commonly found in dining halls to its origins with sugarcane. She constructed a cardboard board with the question “Can […]
Clara Secaira is a first year PhD student in Anthropology. She is from Guatemala. For her art-based project, she chose to do a video showing a compilation of photographs that were taken by herself between August 2022 and May 2023. By documenting the seasonal changes of a Maple Sugar Tree in Cobbs Creek Park, Philadelphia, […]
Trevor is a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania double majoring in Anthropology and Health and Societies. Trevor is from Lawrence, Kansas Meditation Begin by finding a comfortable and quiet place where you can sit or lie down preferably next to a flowing river or body of water. Close your eyes and take a deep […]
Adrien Wilson-Thompson is a rising senior majoring in Anthropology. She is from Maryland. For her art installation, she chose to work with natural earth mineral paint and found rocks. She constructed the installation at the James G. Kaskey Memorial Park (Bio Pond) in order to draw attention to the restorative properties of embracing nature. Every […]
Amanda Sweeney is a Junior at the University of Pennsylvania from Philadelphia, PA. She studies Political Science with minors in Environmental Studies and Survey Research & Data Analytics. The “High Rise Field Before Penn” art installation draws the attention of Penn students to the history of the land we live upon. The stories of Black […]
Anna Hochman is a sophomore Urban Studies major from San Francisco. For her art installation, she worked with cotton ribbon and biodegradable twine. The installation is located on one of the Woodlands’ oak trees in order to call attention to the extraordinary merging of nature and death in the West Philadelphia cemetery. There is no […]
“[Landscapes] are linked to multiple histories and rhythms that can help us escape from thinking of nature or history as singular” (5) Many urban college campuses are designed with interwoven green spaces, including lawns, planted trees, and gardens. At the University of Pennsylvania, the busiest area of campus is dotted with grandiose trees, both native […]
Nora Wang is from Nashville, Tennessee. She’s currently a rising junior studying anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. The river flows from the Appalachian Mountains to the Delaware, curving and twisting like a blue ribbon. It inhales, sucking smaller streams toward it, bubbling and frothing when currents fuse. […]
Photographs and Text by Victoria, 1st Year MFA Candidate, The Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania Pace and Emerging Worlds Each day on my way to the University of Pennsylvania, I cross the Walnut Street Bridge from the East side of Philadelphia towards the West. I began a Masters program here last […]
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