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I dedicated my box to my paternal grandfather. I didn’t know him for very long as he passed away when I was in 5th grade. My cousins and I, were in school when we suddenly received a message from home telling us about the terrible news. We rushed home to find our parents but the few memories that I do have of my grandpa make me wish that I had known him longer. I am still grateful for the time we had together. This box includes a letter, a calculator, a phone, clothing, collage, and food. These all relate to my grandfather in some way. I will describe them in detail with the respective pictures.

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my final project is about my grandfather who was a farmer, he is my grandfather on my mother's side.  He liked to write poems about things or places that he was getting to know.  And well, I never got to know him but I chose to do my project on him because I was curious to know more about his life . As you can see I only have one picture of him because at that time they didn’t take a lot of photos. Something that interested me a lot about him from what my grandmother has told me is that he liked to give her roses and write poems comparing her to one, I think that part of the story was cute.  So I thought to put some roses for my collage and make it as if it were a letter.

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This box is mostly for my grandfather, Ramon De La Cruz. After retiring from the army, he moved to America to start a large family with my grandma, Liberata, and encouraged all of their children to attend higher education. Since then he spent a lot of time making wooden sculptures, including carving a cane that hangs on a wall now. When I was very young he showed me how to draw too.

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Grandma Kei & Grandpa Onorio Final Project

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Grandma Kei & Grandpa Onorio Final Project

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The subjects for my final are my Grandma Kei & Grandpa Onorio. I'm going to give a small background story first on them. They had met when my grandfather was stationed in Japan in the USNAVY. My grandmother was a Geisha at the time. They could barely understand eachother somewhat due to the language barrier. They only had one child, my father, Peter Aguilar. My father's aunts were only ones in Japan that adored him though since not everyone approved of the relationship. Because of my grandfather being Filipino and not full Japanese. When my father was a young child, my grandfather essentially kidnapped him and took him to America. There was nothing my grandmother could do because of the language barrier. So at a young age, my father thought my grandmother just simply didn't care which wasn't the case. He had wound up in foster homes due to my grandfather being moved around in the USNAVY still. It was only later when my father was a young man that he found out my grandmother was dying from breast cancer. So after many years of no contact and being told she abandoned him, he set out for Japan to say his goodbyes. I'm not really sure how the story officially ended to be honest. My father had kept in contact with relatives in Japan after my grandmother's passing but then that had stopped for some reason. I'll never know as my dad had subsequently passed from cancer back in 2015 as well. So now that both my grandparents have been long deceased and I never got the chance to meet them, I had wanted to focus on them for this project. My creative process was to try and initially focus on both of them however, the project itself ended up being more one sided on my grandmother. I don't really have many things of my grandfather. Aside from a few pictures and a magazine. The magazine I had really wanted to include in this but couldn't find due to us moving to a new house recently. So the only stuff I was really to include of my grandfather were the food, gps glasses, and glass jars I stumbled upon. The jars I found were neat since they had the golden gate bridge on them. Which my grandfather later worked and resided in SF for his later years. So I thought that was perfect. I will go into further details below each picture. As for the main elements and principles within. There is color popping from the collage which I wanted to be the main focus. As the project is based on them.  Everything else I wanted to be either mute or black or white. There's a variety in the containers used for each piece. Such as the shoe box for the clothing items, a plastic bag for the food, glass jars for the letters. The collage itself brings emphasis onto both of my grandparents from the halos ordained behind them and the rays of light shining in the background. Lastly, the scale of the container is rather large due to the size of the box used.

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These jars have a picture of the golden gate bridge on them. My grandpa Onorio worked and resided in San Francisco in his later years so I thought these would be perfect for my project. Inside the jar to the left are letters written from Japan. Inside the jar to the right, is the letter I wrote to my grandparents.

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I decided to store the food items in a sealed plastic bag, since what other way would you normally use to transport food in I thought.

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This is my Grandma Kei's camera she had used back in Japan when she was a professional photographer for a magazine. To be honest, I'm not sure how it wound up in America. But I'm guessing when she was on her death bed from cancer, my dad had gone to visit her one last time in Japan and must've brought back some of her belongings.

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Imaginary Tools Pic - GPS Glasses for Grandpa Onorio

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Imaginary Tools Pic - GPS Glasses for Grandpa Onorio

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When my grandpa Onorio later retired from the USNAVY he set about to work as a taxi driver in SF. He was actually quite renowned at his job and made friends with Vincent Price at one point.  He had even gotten put on the front cover of a magazine. Which I do have and had wanted to include but couldn't find sadly due to a recent move. But I thought if any imaginary tool could've helped him back then, GPS glasses would've been it. Mainly because he was always known for wearing Aviator type of glasses. So I thought Aviators that could help direct him to his next pick up would be perfect!

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Tools Pic #2 Imaginary GPS Glasses for Grandpa Onorion Taxi Driving

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I thought the perfect clothing item to use for the project would be a kimono. Mainly because my grandmother Kei was a Geisha when she had met my grandfather back when he was stationed in Japan. So I had wanted to include a annotated drawing, picture, and a small photo of grandma Kei wearing her traditional kimono.

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I decided to make my composition based on straight lines and geometric shapes for the structure. In contrast, objects and portraits of parents, with rounded and organic shapes, would create a good balance. The structure of my container reminds me of a theatrical stage

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My final project is on my mom who has pass away when i was younger. A small background story about my mom was that she was a very caring and kind person. she would always love to volunteer to do some community work! especially at buddhist temples, that’s why i have a buddha picture in my final. that is actually one of her tools that carries everyday with her. she carries it when she works, drives, everywhere. she believes it brings her good fortune and keeps her safe. the second tool would be a camera. something i wish we had when she was still here. i would love to capture some more photos of her and her daily adventures. so as i grew older, i bought the camera to go and take photos on her behalf. she was always smiling which i wish i was able to capture.

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this buddha amulet that is actually one of her tools that carries everyday with her. she carries it when she works, drives, everywhere. she believes it brings her good fortune and keeps her safe.

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second tool would be a camera. something i wish we had when she was still here. i would love to capture some more photos of her and her daily adventures. so as i grew older, i bought the camera to go and take photos on her behalf. she was always smiling which i wish i was able to capture.

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My moms favorites are Pho, chocolate, and eggs. pho is a Vietnamese soup, typically made from beef stock and spices to which noodles and thinly sliced beef or chicken are added. she also loves chocolate. she love all kinds but her most favorite are milk chocolate. and for eggs, she loves eating them because she finds them very delicious

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a traditional clothing that she wears during lunar new year is an ao dai. it is a vietnamese garment that is worn by both female and male. but mostly women. the would wear it when it’s new years or any special occasions.

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for my container to hold all the papers and letter. it is a camera lens cup! i thought this would be a cool container because it’s a camera lens but it’s a cup! another reason why i have this is because i always wanted to take a photo of her smiling so a camera lens makes sense

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this letter was written to my mom about what’s i am doing in life right now. currently almost down with sjcc and i’m going to transfer! and also about the job am currently working at.

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The colors I used are cold colors, however my container is made of wood, as well the sepia of the photographs contrast in value with them. I used the mood and aesthetics of the 40s, because in those years my parents started their relationship. I found different textures with which I think I have achieved that atmosphere. I created unity and rhythm through photographs and images of the sky. The letter used is a real envelope from a letter written by my mother to my father when they got engaged but they lived in different cities.

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My project is dedicated to the memory of my parents. Particularly to their courtship. When they decided to get married many lives were defined and thousands of stories emerged.

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The person I chose to do this project for is my grandfather. He passed away in the 90’s so I never got to meet him. He is my mothers dad. I chose to do my grandfather because of all the interesting stories my mom told me about him and I thought his experiences would be perfect for the box I wanted to make. I conducted the research by sitting down with my mom and talking about all the things he would do. This included jobs and just things he would do on the daily. I also tried to remember things my mom had already told me about him in the past.

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When we started the project, I thought that my mom had some type of picture of my grandpa. I believe that we did at one point but the picture my mom had got burned in a house fire a few years ago. I guess that was the only picture my mom had so I had to move on with my project without any of his stuff. Instead, I chose to draw objects that reminded me of his life and the things he would do. I did a drawing of a hammer and a pill bottle which represented the tool based items. I also drew a marines hat for the clothing item and a sack of beans for the food item. I also got a couple of rocks from my crystal collection.

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For this project, I really wanted to tell a story with the objects and the way they were placed. I kinda placed them in chronological order. The box closest to the background is what he did first which was the marines and the box farthest from the background is what he did last, or in this case, what he didn’t get to do. I think this placement creates movement. I also wanted them to float so that they looked like memories or just thoughts. I also used texture with the rocks and the cloth inside the box. Color was also pretty big in my project. I used mostly tan colors.

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My assemblage is a tribute of my grandma, for the courage she had shown me over the years. She was a buddhist, and a great helper among the buddhist community. She used her skill as a seamtress to repair the monk's attire. My grandma is a strong believer in the teaching of the buddhist, so she's usually spotted in black clothings and sometimes wearing a buddhist robe when attending ceremonies. She loves beaches, especially the ones in Vietnam, since beaches there are so much warmer compared to western's. Anyway I included a picture of her favorite soft drink Coca Cola as a joke because she was the one who gave me an at home nickname Kaka, which is a derivative from Coca Cola, she even sometimes refers to me as Coca.

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I chose these sea shells as a decorative to represent my grandma's love for Vietnam. I remember when I was a kid, she used to talk to me over the phone about how she wanted to visit Vietnam beaches.

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These tool is to represent my grandma past job as a seamtress.

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This is an upper garment piece of my grandmas outfit for when attending ceremonies, and the only clothing I have left of my grandma.

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My Step Dad and My Grandma Final Project

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My Step Dad and My Grandma Final Project

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My Final Project was the memory of my Step Dad and I have two family since they’re deceased and since he passed away form 2015 due to Heart Surgery and my Grandma since she passed away from 2018 due to weaken health and I want it to make memories of my Step Dad and my Grandma and also my Step Dad and I have been going out together to go on a road trip and traveling to Washington DC and also he like German Culture since he took me to Washington State near Canada and we have a good old memories with my family in Washington and my other family from Washington DC and I also want it to my Grandma to Chinatown and she loves Chinese Culture since she half Chinese and Cambodian and they were good memories about my Step Dad and my Grandma.

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My Step Dad favorite clothing was Oktober Fest of Germany and since he is German I decided to sketch and designs German Clothes that my Step Dad wears and I really like my Step Dad outfit of Germany but he doesn’t play German Instruments but he like walk around in Germany and I also have My Grandma as well and her favorite clothing was Cambodian Silk and I sketch and design Cambodian Silk since she come from Asia in Cambodia but I tried to make creations with her Cambodian Silk but her dress and accessories look stunning and I also draw the Crown and since My Step Dad loves German Clothing and my Grandma loves Cambodian Silk Clothing.

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My Step Dad favorite food is Artichoke and I sketch the Artichoke & Lemon Pasta and it was My Step Dad favorite meals and I also sketch Artichoke as well and I wish I want to put the Artichoke in the box but it made of Vegetables covered in water so it might make the box wet and also My Grandma favorite food was Noodles and I also sketch Noodles into Nam Banh Chok and it was my Grandma favorite meal and she likes Sushi as well but I recently don’t like Sushi since I’m scared of Seafood but they were my Family Favorite Food.

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I usually don’t have the Container but I do have the scroll to have a letter to my Step Dad and my Grandma and since they passed away and we also write a letter to my Step Dad and my Grandma for a long time with decades.

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The letter was written to my Step Dad and to’d him that I want to work as part time job and moving to Southern California after I’m done in school and I want it to make my Step Dad proud of me that I will get a part time job and living in Southern California for my future.

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The Letter was written to my Grandma and I want her to be proud of me as well and I asked my Grandma that I will visit to Chinatown to get some Chinese Culture since she’s Asian and my Grandma never get her chances to go see Chinatown but I will make my Grandma proud so I want to see Chinatown to go on the research for Chinese Culture.

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For this project, I choose to do it on my great great grandmother Mary Fernandez. For this project I wanted to do it on a family member that I have no memory of as well as never heard of before. I asked my grandmother for some help and she recommended Grandma Mary. She was able to give me a run down on her personality based on what she remembered of her. I also asked my mom if she knew anyone else who would have some information but unfortunately all I was able to get was some gossip and a rumor that was more than likely true. When I was thinking on how I wanted to put the box together that really shown a lot of her personality. She was a hoarder (or in her words, a collectors) and was kind of messy. She hated cleaning and picking up stuff. So I wanted it to appear cluttered but also placed in a manner that all components can be seen. I wanted to make sure that the collage, without my great great grandmothers photos, was seen as well. For this I wanted to choose items with muted colors to give off this aged affect. I wanted to place the items in a way that will force you to look in multiple directions rather than making the viewer focus on one area. I wanted to make sure that not only are there a lot of shapes that were geometric but also organic.

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My subject is my paternal grandmother, her name is Columba Gutierrez. She passed away last year on the 28th of December so it will be a full year now. She was a devout catholic and she was always visiting the Our Lady of Guadalupe church when she was in better health. She is also the kindest person I have ever met. No matter what, she always loved all of her children/grandchildren. I conducted the research by asking my family members about things I may not have known about her like how she got here and where else she had lived. My dad especially was a great help to me in gathering this information. Compiling my dossier was pretty easy since I knew her well and a good portion of the things that I used in my containers are items that I had directly received from her. I used the elements of design by using variety. Variety played a big part in my piece. An example of this is my collage and how it looks compared to the two containers used on the bottom of the box. They are directly lined up with each other and are more neat looking while the collage looks randomized compared to it. I also used alignment. I cut the cardboard you see in the front so that it would align well with both the outer yellow box and the silver box behind it.

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clothing item, food item, imaginary item

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clothing item, food item, imaginary item

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On top we have a concha since my grandma loved her sweet bread. On the bottom right is a little vest that looks like one she used to wear. The imaginary item is a translator pen, that would have been very useful to her considering that she primarily spoke Spanish. I can't imagine the difficulties she faced when she first came here.

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For the other tool, I included this knitting needle since she was always wanting to knit things for her loved ones. I don't think you can see it very well in the silver box so here is a close up.

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I wanted to make the letter looked aged and as if she wrote multiple. I burned some of the edges to make it appear as though I saved it from the house fire.

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I put a lot of though into this tool but for her I feel like she would like a record player. I though of one that could play any song your heart desire, no matter the time it was made (future or past) or if it was real or not. You may have heard a song in a dream and wanted to hear it again. This record player can do that. I feel like this is appropriate for her as she LOVED to dance. She would go dancing every weekend and was constantly going to parties so I felt like this was fitting.

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I drew something I feel like she would wear and found some old jewelry from Savers like appeared to be quite old. I have seen very few photos of her but my grandmother said this jewelry looked like something she would wear. The fabric, including the one everything is resting on, were something you would more than likely have found in her home. As for the jewelry, she loved to wear jewelry and in fact had multiple piercings.

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These are two regular tools I feel like she would use. She worked in the fields all of her life picking cotton, prunes and grapes.

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these were the other containers in the box that looked like some that she used to own so I felt like that was a nice touch.

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Here is my letter, I didn't think about taking a photo of my letter before I sealed it. I might include it. I had typed it up before actually writing it on paper since I didn't want to mess up when I wrote in pen.

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there was some images I had for the food it for some reason everytime I tried to upload it, it would appear blurry. But for the food area I found a small ceramic saucer and I drew a tiny plate of enchiladas that I then placed into the collage in the final photos since she loved ceramic items like that and she enjoyed enchiladas.

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My eyes are moving from the collage to the compartment. The lid of the box is magenta with a black border and the box is black with a magenta compartment, connecting both sides to each other. So this color theme has united the composition to make it visually appealing.

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My grandfather preferred to wear Indian traditional clothing that mostly everyone wore at that time. He used to wear it every day as I remember it. The thing I liked the most about his clothing as a kid and now still is his Indian-style turban. I loved how it almost matched in color with his shoes because in my eyes he was trying to be more fashionable and it worked according to me. So, in my sculpture, I took care to make sure, his shoes and turban were the same deep brown.

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My grandfather was a businessman. He used to sell general dining materials. So for keeping track of his earnings for the day, he used to keep a calculator. Whenever he earned more than the previous day, he would always be really happy and take the time to tell us all about it the next time we met. I knew that if my grandfather was still here today, he would obsess over smartphones and use them excessively to expand his business so I included this in my box because I really think he would have liked a smartphone.

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This is a traditional Rajasthani food plate (thali). Before I go on to explain what the contents of this thali are, I would like to share a funny story about my grandfather. My grandpa would always question me about the process of making indian dishes. Me, having no interest in cooking at all, would always respond with “I don’t know”. He would always jokingly say to my mother that since she hates cooking, she’d better marry an Indian chef who could feed her family (this was one wish of his that we never really get into consideration, I married an engineer). The thali includes roti, and to the left of a roti is potato sabji, then continuing in a circle kadi, daal, raita, gulab jamun, and palak paneer.

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My assemblage was a bit different due to some circumstances with my family. I was adopted and I don’t feel close to the ancestry of my adopted family, and I prefer not to talk much about my biological family. I was inspired by the “care package” idea and decided to make a care package for me as a baby or possibly one of my biological siblings that want to know about me and my life. I put pieces from my adoptive family, bio family, and a bit of me as an individual. The pieces hanging in the middle represent a chart of my DNA ancestry results I got from 23andMe. On them, I traced different family photos, and the maps in the background are also from my 23andMe. I did look through old photos for my research, and I looked through my house/my old belongings to find interesting items. My case that’s holding my items is actually a makeup case my dad got for me. I liked it because of the interesting composition and multiple compartments, but I tried to break up the geometric monotony with interesting lines like the thread and placing the bottle/scissors in different directions. I tried to position items so they led the viewers eyes across, instead of going one compartment at a time.

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My subject for the final assemblage project is my paternal grandfather Bob Eugene Daley whom is still alive at the age of 92. I realized I was not going to be able to do it on any one of my ancestors who had already passed away. It have been very difficult. I gathered all of these items and research that I needed by for one going to my dad first and asking him some questions, but then I did the best thing I could do which was to visit my grandfather himself. He does not live far from me and I was able to take home with me as many objects and photos as I liked. Along the way, my grandfather, being the philosophical, knowledgeable, and talkative man that he is, he gave plenty of explanation on many of the photos, books, and objects that I observed and took for my dossier. It definitely was a help to me so that I could learn a lot more about who was back then through the information he shared. I bought a shadow box for my main compartment. And I soon realized there was not going to be a whole lot of room for smaller separate compartments. I included two, and arranged all of my other items in a different way inside the box.

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The Two Tools with Tool One and Tool Two

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The Two Tools with Tool One and Tool Two

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Those are the tools and the first tool was the Screwdriver and it was belongs to my Step Dad when he used the nail to screws and unscrew the nail and the second tool was the Camera and it was also belongs to my Step Dad as well and he gives me a Camera since my Senior Year in High School and he thought me that how to used a Camera so I keep my Step Dad Camera so I used it to take pictures.

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I really wish I would have done something a whole lot bigger so that also certain things like the collage would be more visible, but I thought that putting the collage on the back of the box would serve as an effective background for the whole set piece. I though the snake object was a perfect center focal point for the dossier, and it fit perfectly inside the larger of the two smaller compartments. By doing this I used the principle of emphasis due to how the snake tends to be the first place the viewer's eyes look. I also took the opportunity to incorporate the element of color. I definitely was able to create a feeling of balance based upon making sure not too many parts of the dossier were heavily on one side. And there is a feeling of unity with how the elements of line, color, and shape really work together to create a pleasing image were the viewer's eye can move around freely after leaving the focal point of the snake that tends to stand out in the center of the piece. With that there is variety, and a sense of busyness, but I would venture to say that it is an organized and balanced busyness. The fact that it is all enclosed within a box makes it feel like it is a completed and wholesome work.

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The snake in the box fit and it being in the middle of the center part of the collage also fit.

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The small picture of the soda bread fit perfectly in this smaller compartment.

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The dikes were something that I had to be creative with because they belong to my dad, but I drilled two holes in the top of the box that the snake was going in, and then just propped in place that way by sticking it in those holes.

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I decided a perfect way to illustrate the hand written letter in my dossier would be to just roll it up and tie a ribbon around it to for one make it look official and fancy, and also it helped with conserving space, which for me was very much needed with the size of my shadow box. And I also made sure that the words Dear Grandpa Daley were showing when I placed it in the box.

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When I started this project I did not really know what things to use since objects related to him  are in Mexico and probably already broken or lost.  So I had to see what I could do.  So I asked my grandmother for photos from those times to see if she had anything even about what the place looked like back then and I printed it out.  I also put things like the hourglass to assimilate a compass because I don't have one but it means that he liked to visit new places.

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Some of the elements of design I used in my project was shape (photos) color (collage) and line (collage).

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Some of the principles of design are variety of shapes and repetition.

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A letter I write to him talking about how my life is going  right now.Also a photo of how Michoacan look back them.

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Enchiladas- typical Mexican dish that is made with a corn tortilla, blathered in a sauce,spicy or not, using a chili in its preparation.

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Michoacan carnitas are a dish of creole origin that emerged after the pig was introduced to the new continent. It is common for its origin to be atributed to the state of Michoacan.

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My subject for this was nominally my maternal grandfather, Yori Kosaiku. It was interesting trying to make a project based around a person I never met. The biggest challenge in conducting research for this was finding information about him. Until starting this project I had no idea my family had any surviving photos of my grandfather at all! It took a slightly ridiculous amount of time to actually find any. The much easier part of research was sitting down to talk with my mom about her dad, finding out basic stuff like what foods he liked and what his hobbies were.

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I feel like as I worked on this project it became less about my grandfather specifically and more an attempt to wrestle with the idea of knowing and missing people you have never met. It's sort of a care package, I think, being sent to the past so I can get to know my grandfather. It's a little hard to tell in these pictures but the circle in the center of the main collage is an embossing stamp for Ju-San Corp., the construction company Yori worked for. My interpretation of 'container' got kind of... loose. I just couldn't figure out how to fit my ideas into a box- but since it's a time traveling care package, I think it makes sense for the individual items to be 'packaged' into a mobile instead of a more standard shipping container. The items are kept together by a red string (of fate?) rather than cardboard and packing tape.
There's a lot of repetition in this: three items for my grandfather based on his tastes, and three based on things I'd like to tell him about. The style of frames divide which items fall into which category. Three people: my grandfather, my mother, and me. Clothes, food, and tools are in sets of two. There are two strands of red yarn for each connection. It's a big multimedia collage made up of little paper collages, so stylistically it's unified.

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Additional image: texture on the company seal

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Additional image: texture on the company seal

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Since the texture on that embossed stamp isn't super clear in the photos of the finished piece, here's a close up of that main collage.

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While it isn't exactly a meal my grandparents ate, the sugar plantation they owned played a huge role because selling the land would push them to move to America

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I sketched a reference of my grandfather when he was younger, probably just before going to the military. He had pretty plain clothes, probably close to a school uniform.

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Considering how long it takes to process sugar, especially during the 50's I would've wished my grandfather had a machine that could do it quickly

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The "letter" is a brief note to me, or probably any of his grand kids, wishing them to be as happy and successful in their future like they were when my grandparents moved to the states to raise a family. Since my grandpa was a wooden sculpture and worked with sugar cane, I figured he would want a pocket knife too.

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My grandpa on my mother’s side, Antonino Serio, came over to America from Italy in 1964 because his siblings had already made the journey looking for better opportunities. After permanently leaving his hometown, he worked really hard to get to where he wanted to be, always taking on two jobs and managing a family as soon as he met and married my grandma a year later. I really admire his bravery and work ethic. For this project, I wanted to involve aspects of Italy and the transfer over to America, while also including his hobbies and past jobs.

I had some difficulty choosing my final arrangement since there was a lot of stuff to fit into a relatively small box. I decided to add a panel to the right side and a drawer in the middle to make the box look less box-like. I wanted to keep most of the colors a bit muted as to not draw the eye to one particular area. My goal was to get the viewer to bounce around from one object to the next and notice the small details along with the bigger picture.

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This is the bottom potion of the box. I used one of his sweaters in his favorite color, that he still wears often, as the base. On top I added his watch he brought from Italy and a gondola figuring his remaining family in Italy had sent over to him in America. Also in this section is a cross he made out of olive tree leaves. Back at his house he used to grow olives (my mom would go on and on about how she loved them) and being the crafty person he is, he figured out how to weave together a cross from the leaves. I decided to keep this section pretty minimal to balance out the busier top portion.

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The main portion of the box includes my photo collage, a tower of spools of thread, a wooden spoon, and my grandpa’s necklace. The thread on the left is in reference to my grandma, who sew for a living, and the spoon on the right is for my grandpa who was a chef back in Italy. The read string connecting the two sections was inspired by the string of fate connecting my grandma to my grandpa. I wanted to include his necklace somewhere in my project because it is really special to him and I never see him take it off. I put it in the separate drawer compartment, hanging in front of the map of Italy as a reminder of his home.