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want to do something related to a church, and something to do with the people within a church

hand positions/gestures I see people do during sermons and when talking about 'holy' things

what do specific hand gestures mean

research what specific hand gestures within paintings of christian figures mean

look into the canonized saints and if there were specific hand gestures associated with each of them

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church: St. Giles

St. Giles --> he was known as a hermit and his one and only companion for most of his solitude was his beloved deer (also known as the red deer), who gave him milk occasionally. Part of his martyrdom was being shot by an arrow meant for his deer, which apparently made him known as the patron for the physically disabled.

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answers to the short writing prompts during the individual programme of study session

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answers to the short writing prompts during the individual programme of study session

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notes from group feedback with geoff and his other mentees

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notes from group feedback with geoff and his other mentees

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individual programme of study worksheet side 1

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individual programme of study worksheet side 1

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individual programme of study worksheet side 2

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individual programme of study worksheet side 2

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what I've been working on and thinking about outside of class

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what I've been working on and thinking about outside of class

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I've been thinking a lot about how immersive I want to make the personal world I'm crafting called Bugzwurld. I have been trying to learn (slowly but surely) how to do basic coding for a neocities site I want to make for Bugzwurld. In my initial ideas, I would like the site to be formatted like a map, with the different areas of Bugzwurld being clickable, taking you to pages that will tell you more about each area. Aside from this, I have been doing a lot of research on the different symbols present within portraits of saints, and I have been thinking about how to integrate concepts like different hand gestures in portraits conveying different meanings into my own practice and to build up the lore of Bugzwurld. I am very interested in Catholic aesthetics and I am trying to find ways to make that imagery my own while trying to take away the harmful aspects of Catholicism that I want to do away with.

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I am currently reading two books from the library called Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500, and another called Arms and Uniforms: The Age of Chivalry Part 1.

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drawings I did from the Sunday mass I attended at St. Giles

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drawings I did from the Sunday mass I attended at St. Giles

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notes about the order of events of movements or special things happening during the service 

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notes about the order of events of movements or special things happening during the service 

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Chironomia: the art of using gesticulations or hand gestures to good effect in traditional rhetoric or oration (wikipedia definition)

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Chironomia: the art of using gesticulations or hand gestures to good effect in traditional rhetoric or oration (wikipedia definition)

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Some articles I have been reading about chironomia attached and here: https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/talk-with-the-hand

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Illustration from John Bulwer's Chirologia, or the Natural Language of the Hand (1644)

"When we think of Caravaggio, we think of dramatic lighting and figures that seem to have stepped right out of the Roman streets. More often than not, however, the subjects of his works were religious and meant to present a moral drama-and one of the means of doing that was with gesture."

We all know that Italians are famous for gesticulating, but deciphering those gestures can be baffling. Various treatises were written about the subject throughout the 17th century, including one by John Bulwer, Chirologia, or the Natural Language of the Hand, written in 1644. This was no casual enterprise but was based on the study of formal gestures-not the gestures of the street, but those sanctioned by the authority of Roman Classical treatises such as Cicero's De oratore (55 B.C.). Shown above are some examples of the illustrations for supplication, prayer, imploring, and admiring, among others.

In Chirologia, Bulwer states that "to beat and knock the hand upon the breast is a natural expression . . . used in contrition, repentance, shame, and reprehending ourselves." That's just what is happening in Caravaggio's The Denial of Saint Peter, in which the apostle Peter denies to two accusers that he was a follower of Jesus.

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, 1571-1610). The Denial of Saint Peter, 1610. Oil on canvas, 37 x 49 3/8 in. (94 x 125.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Herman and Lila Shickman, and Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997 (1997.167)

Look at his face, with the brush describing that furrowed brow and the eyes filled with remorse at his own betrayal. It's one of Caravaggio's final paintings and, beginning on April 10, it will be reunited with another of his late masterpieces, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, which is being lent to The Met by the Banca Intesa Sanpaolo in Naples for display in an upcoming exhibition, Caravaggio's Last Two Paintings.

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What Is in a Gesture? - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Curator Keith Christiansen analyzes a hand gesture Caravaggio depicted in one of his late masterpieces, The Denial of Saint Peter.

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an image showcasing the meanings behind some popular hand gestures within Catholicism

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an image showcasing the meanings behind some popular hand gestures within Catholicism

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Not totally related to my project, but I found this image interesting, and I would like to look more into what this image is depicting/who it is for

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reference for one of the hand positions I am depicting

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reference for another hand position I am depicting

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Final setup of my piece for the exhibition

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Final setup of my piece for the exhibition

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initial ideas in the "what will you submit" presentation in class

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initial ideas in the "what will you submit" presentation in class

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more detailed notes and ideas for my submission for the independent projects proposal

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more detailed notes and ideas for my submission for the independent projects proposal

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I really enjoyed the exhibition. I had a bit of a difficult time setting my piece up and was really stressed about whether or not it was up to par with my classmates work, but in the end, I am proud of the research I did and with my concept. I was on the curation team, and I curated the outside area. I also generally helped with setting up and whatever my classmates needed help with. Based on the feedback I got from friends I invited to the exhibition and from classmates, they thought my pieces reflected how much research I was doing for the project, and said that my writing that was included as part of my piece was well written and concise. However, they mentioned that I maybe should have included more in my piece description off to the side about St. Giles and explained further how I studied hand gestures at the church. In future iterations of this project, I think I would have liked to have incense paired with the piece to replicate the atmosphere of the mass I attended for this project, and I also would have made a few drawings of the inside of the church and metal pieces mimicking actual pieces I saw in the church to further replicate the feeling of being in St. Giles.