For their final projects students were given the opportunity to complete a visual project that would address our semester readings and class discussions. One student, responding to Kafka’s expressed prohibition (in a letter to his editor) against visually depicting Gregor Samsa, sculpted a three-dimensional insect; another student made a hand-bound book that, in its dimensions and contours, explores the “emotional weight” of Kafka’s Letter to His Father; while a third, engaging the pervasive theme of liminality, constructed a door and threshold containing on one side a likeness of the contraption depicted in Kafka’s In the Penal Colony, while along the outer edge a photo montage of the author’s life and loves. The three students exhibited their work at the opening reception during Hays’ Winter “Artwalk,” held a local coffeehouse/gallery and thus offering a community-wide forum for their class projects.
Lacy’s Gregor
Lacy & Gregor
Lacy & Gregor
Sarah in front of the Liminal sculpture
Dr. Kite and Lisa K.
Gregor awoken by a young gallery visitor
Gregor retreating
Child-friendly insect
Codi’s Liminal Sculpture (close up)
Gregor exposed
Gregor
Making Gregor feel at home
Gregor relaxes
Sarah’s Book
Steve seeking his K
Codi, Lisa, & Steve
Nikki and friends
Nikki, German major
Sarah & Morgan
Lacy
Coffee Rules
Sarah’s Book
Codi beside her Liminal Sculpture
Kafka’s lungs
Back view of Liminal piece
Sarah answering viewers’ questions
Gallery visitors.
Sarah
Codi showing her dad the edge of the Liminal piece
Gregor and Morgan
“One happy family”
Kafka-Abend
Serenading Gregor
Gregor embraced by FHSU Art Dept.
Codi and young Kafka reader
Gallery guests relieved at Gregor’s retreat
Members of Kafka class with Dr. Kempinski
Up in the Gallery
Gallery members 2
Lacy comes through!