Khadijah Shoaab: The gnome spoke to me in a sense of nostalgia. I used to watch a cartoon show as kid called Gravity Falls and it had many Gnomes throughout the show and so seeing a miniature version of a ginormous wooden Gnome spoke to my childhood. I believe it does represent CSI in the sense that it is made up of so many different parts but appears as a whole just like the dolphin community. I also think the little 3d printed gnomes also symbolize us as a freshman class entering a huge new world. I believe a CSI student created the gnome out of wood in a forest for a art project because we found it in the art building. The sheer scale of the gnome in a setting such as a forest does imply some symbolism.
Mehdina Nimatova: The gnome speaks to me because on first glance it’s nothing crazy but once you look at the other components you realize it was part of something much bigger, from the size of the larger piece to the number of people who worked on it. There was just a lot more than what met the eye.
I do think it represents our campus because we are all part of something bigger than ourselves and play our own roles here.
I think it’s here because a huge group of people came together to make it happen. They all contributed to make this huge gnome….
Anjali Nair: This artwork doesn’t necessarily speak to me because it doesn’t connect to anything I have seen before in my life. I do think that the piece is very interesting where so much effort and minds went into creating it. I think it represents out campus as it shows the power of collaboration and putting your minds together to create this creation and the little gnomes represent us students while the big gnome is our campus. I think it is there because the creators went to CSI and created it for themselves as well as for a project
Jordana Caserta: This piece of art speaks to me because it was interesting to see the different steps that were taken to make a really cool piece. I also like the little miniature versions in front of the large gnome. Honestly, this piece reminds me of my childhood and innocence. I think this piece can represent our campus because the little gnomes can represent the students and the large gnome can represent the campus itself. The little gnomes being different colors represents diversity, but the same idea of “gnome” represents us all being CSI dolphins.
I think this artwork was here because someone from the school created it and wanted to display it. The person who created it was most likely a person who went here and wanted it to be here on display
Felicia Cruciata:How the art “speaks to me”:
The gnome speaks to me because at first, I didn’t much of the gnome but when I got a closer look at the gnome I saw everything that went into it. I saw how many people worked to the creation of the gnome and how big this project was in both size and contribution.
Does this represent campus?
I think the gnome does represent the campus it took a community to create the gnome and CSI is a community.
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