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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, 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. I made sure to use pictures of things in his native language (the newspaper, the passport, the quote) because there was a big language barrier when he came here since all he had ever known was Italian. I also wanted to add a coin and a clock/watch since when he came here, all he had was the clothes on his back and a bit of change. This was the humble beginning to his long journey.

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This is a suitcase that I chose to be my container for this project. I found it in my closet, and I don't recalled recieving a suitcase like this from anyone, so I asked my mom and she said it was probably a welcoming present from my grandma.

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Now when I opened this up I was a bit suprised to learn that it was some kind of cards game and even more so that it wasn't in Vietnamese. Afterward I asked my mom about it and I learned an interesting fact that my grandma was half Chinese and half Vietnamese, considering the two country were next to eachother, its only normal I supposed.

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Anyhow here is a quick concept of my assemblage

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7. This is a picture of me when I was in Kindergarten, and also the last time I saw my grandma before she came to America.
1. This is the only picture that I have of my grandma, she used to visit me when I was a kid but I only saw her once a year and that was back in my homeland.
4. I chose those dice to resemble Lunar New Year or sometimes regarded to as the time that people gamble to take advantage of good fortune. Anyway, each time Lunar New Year comes, my grandma sent me multiple bags of American candies to Vietnam(this happened while I still was in Vietnam). My favorite out of them are the Fruit By The Foot, and M&ms.
2. I included seashells because that is her favorite place to live in, she often talks about visiting Vietnam when I was a kid, specifically Nha Trang, Vietnam. Why beach in Vietnam? because beaches there are one of the warmest place to swim in, in the world.
3. This is a funny one, my nickname that my family call me is Ka, or sometimes Kaka as a joke. But my grandma always refer to me as "Coca Cola" since I presumed it rhymed with my name and also her favorite sugary drink.
6. That one is a crystal pendant I have of my grandma key chain before she passed away, I believe that is the keychain present of her granddaughter or my cousin's wedding.

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Grandma Kei & Grandpa Onorio Memorial Collage

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Grandma Kei & Grandpa Onorio Memorial Collage

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The two people I decided to do my project on were my Grandma Kei & Grandpa Onorio. The idea for my collage was inspired from what we were shown in class at an earlier time of pictures done with religious context. Such as halos ordained within the image almost making the figures holy in a way. My grandparents have been both long deceased and I had never gotten the chance to meet them. So this collage to me was done in a way to memorialize them.

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so i decided to do my final project on my mother who’s a single parent. my father has never really been part of the family picture, but my mother mad sure that she took his spot. she raised me with my grandma and aunt. she was always a busy person. she worked 2 jobs. morning job was being a cook for a food truck and her second job was a waiter at a vietnamese pho restaurant. she is also a buddhist and she takes it very seriously. she would sometimes go to local buddhist temples to do volunteer work. she does everything to keep me being happy. i drew a crown over her head because she’s a queen. and i drew a red and blue outline because those were her favorite colors. she deserves everything.

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My Grandmother with Colorful Collage Background.

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My Grandmother with Colorful Collage Background.

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My Final Project was my Grandmother and she was born in Cambodia and my grandma story was to escape from the war in Cambodia and she saved my mom and my two aunts from the war and she and my grandpa has to split up so my grandpa stay in Cambodia and my Grandma moved to another city so my grandpa took my mom and. My two aunts to live in California in United State and that is the story of my Grandma and she doesn’t have jobs but she only does do babysitting. My Grandma always love my mom and two aunts to take care of them when they are alone and babysitting was the only job that my Grandma take care of my mom and my two aunts. In April 2018. My Grandma passed away due to her health and she always want it to explore Chinatown which is her favorite Chinese culture and I always be proud of my grandmother.

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I am happy to introduce my great grandmother. She was born in Juarez,Zacatecas and met my great grandfather who was from Arizona and brought my great grandmother to the US April 14,1965. she passed away in 2018 at the age of 98 and was a huge impact in my life. My family has a long line of strong woman and she was one to teach us how to be one.  On the left side you see a red with black stripped head tie that my great grandmother would wear while she worked in the onion factory. On top of the head band you see a rosary, on bad days or days we felt down, she would bless us and pray to us to have strength and clearing all negative energy. The picture is of her the year she passed along side myself and my baby sister who is the baby of the family. This picture means a lot to me because I’m grateful to show the different generations. On top of the picture is a necklace with rosemary, my great grandmother wore that every day and once my grandfather had to leave for work for 4 years, she took it off and said it would protect him, he took care of it, and gave it back all it one piece. When she passed away, I wanted to keep it as it has such a beautiful story to it.

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My plans changed. I canceled my trip, therefore my final project changed. I will make a box in memory of my parents and all the events, lives and experiences that their love story triggered.

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I am still working to fully gather all the items I originally wanted to be part of my final project. I put together all the parts of it that are available to me right now for a progress picture!

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Here is a collage I made with the individual parts of my final project. I really love the red color of the locker I am using as the container.

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I will be coloring this and possibly adding additional designs on the pieces. The paper below is a map which I’ll be coloring as well. I want to either cut the pieces smaller or making it so that the viewer can see the map better.

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I changed my subject to my all parents to paternal grandfather. am making my memory box filled with his belongings. I am trying to collect all the stuff which belongs to him. I lost my grandfather when I was just 11 years old but memories are still alive. It is really good opportunity to bind them all together as a treasure box.

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For the container of this project, I wanted to use a wooden box I use to hold my paints and easel. I thought it resembled a suitcase and the hard outer bit was nice a sturdy to work with.

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The inside of the box already had these rearrangeable dividers, although I kinda liked the sections that were already there.

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Here is the container I chose! It’s a moving box that I painted yellow. This may seem plain to the average person but to me it has a lot of meaning. It is based off of my current favorite show, Move to Heaven. It is about a moving company for the dead (death cleaners essentially) and the yellow box is a key point in the show. The box is always delivered to the loved ones of the deceased and in the box are items that represent the person who passed. This show means a lot to me as it came out around the time I was still trying to process my grandmother’s passing and it just really is the perfect show for dealing with death. Anyways, when we first started talking about this project in class, I knew that I had to use this box as my container because of the way that it correlated with this assignment.

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I decided to upload a photo of this inner container because I realized that it is a bit hard to see. So the little jar in the blue divider thing has holy water, then is a bracelet that I received from my grandmother as a child. The bracelet is something that she knitted. Then there is a tiny bird. I included it because it is an inside joke, she’d always pronounce bird in Spanish as “parajito” when it was supposed to be “pajarito” and I remember I’d get so confused, angry even, and she would laugh so much at my reaction. I’m pretty sure she did it as a joke but I’m also not too sure because whenever she’d ask about my pet birds, she’d still pronounce it as “parajito”. Then there is a knitting needle, an El Chavo pen (El Chavo is one of her favorite shows of all time), a pocket bible, and a rosary that I received from her. The paper on the bottom is a birthday card that I received from her (I scanned and reprinted it) and since I was unsure if the letter was supposed to be from the subject, I also wrote her a letter. The envelope there is a letter that I wrote to her. The candle is there since it gets a bit too dark to look in this container once it is in the box.

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Here is what it looks like all together for now. The wood thing is a miniature of what’s used to make tortillas/tamales. My family told me that she was an amazing cook and that her tamales were the best. I am not done yet though so I will make changes to my post once I add the rest.

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So I chose to do it on my great great grandmother Mary Fernandez. She was alive during the 1920's and worked in the fields picking cotton, grapes and prunes. I kinda put everything in there a bit messily die to the fact that this is kind of like her. She was a big party person and a collector of a lot of different things ( a hoarder(I think that's how you spell that)). I chose her because she is the furthest back on our family that we know is definitely our family. Our family even from the very beginning was secretive about rumors and drama so it is hard to get a lot of information. Despite that she seems like she was a wonderful woman.

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Things changed with my box, I wanted flowers and more art but I didn’t have the right materials.

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I am doing my final assemblage project on my paternal grandfather.

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I have a lot of photos of my family’s and cousins from the past and they are a lot of them and I have to find out that which old photo should I used them for my thumbnail sketches to make into collage by using container and I always treasured my old photos.

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Photos of my Family to prepared for Collage

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Photos of my Family to prepared for Collage

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I remembered that my photos of my family and my grandmother since a long time ago when my mom was married to my step dad after she got divorced with my dad and there was photo of me when I was a kid and I very missed my family from the past but maybe someday I keep them as treasured.

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Gathering old family photos and artifacts together 

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Gathering old family photos and artifacts together 

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Since I have my old photos of my family and my grandmother old artifacts based on collage I decided to make them together for the container and I really like having a fun time with my family, my grandmother, and my cousin.

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I make the 5 thumbnail sketches but I choose the third image of the 5 thumbnail sketches for my family photos from the past and old artifacts as well and I have created 5 ideas with the container to filled in with my family photos and old artifacts.

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This  beautiful collage of my grandfather. I don't have many pictures of him so I am using only one picture which I have. He was a devotee of god and he had good knowledge of ayurveda and used to help others.

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I drew 5 thumbnail sketches. I chose last one but I drew sideways and divided into upside down because when I was dividing I found it look more beautiful.

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my assemblage project is going to be focused on my grandfather who passed in 2018, the structure of my container is going to be a replica of the structure of his house filled with pictures of his belongins.

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I chose to make this project about my maternal grandfather. He passed away before I was even born so we don’t have any of his belongings. I thought we had pictures of him but my mom couldn’t find any either so instead I decided to make a collage of the things he was most proud of. My mom told me that he used to be in the marines and he would always tell them stories and his experiences when he was in it. The first image is a picture of the Mexican marines and I cut out the faces of the people. The image behind the faces is a field. My grandpa was later a field worker. He would pick lots of fruits and things like that.

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Here it is my real life collage and this is real and there are my families and my cousins from the past and I made a work of collage to get design and composition but I really missed my family since they passed away for a long time ago but I always keep the masterpiece work of collage filled with my family and my cousins.

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Since I already collage with design and composition with my family and cousin since I missed them so much and I decided to add crafting material and stickers into collage and my most family I missed was my step dad and I really missed him since he has a heart surgery and but I will never throw this collage with my family and cousin and I keep it has a portrait on the wall and treasured as well.

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My box will be about my paternal grandparents, grandpa Ramon and grandma Liberata. After serving in the war, my grandfather was a wooden sculpture artist. With how many kids they had, my grandmother was a full-time housewife to care for all of them. Eventually they sold their farmland and moved to America so my dad and the rest of his siblings could attend a higher education.

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I borrowed a cigar box from my dad since I thought it also fit my grandpa pretty well since he had a pipe. The size was also seemed big enough to fit what I wanted to put in it.

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My first ideas on how will I will organize my box and the things I was planning to include inside.

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My collage is about my grandfather. From my mom side he was a farmer that harvested all kinds of things you can think of, but specifically coffee and beans. One think that he liked to do on his free times was writing poems and explore looking for new places  to write about his experience. And when he proposed to my grandmother he did it writing a poem about roses and compared to her. As you can see I only have one picture of him because in those times it was not common to take a lot of pictures. I try for my collage to be a letter from him to me talking about all the things he did in his youth and the advice he will give to us.

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This are not all the things I will be using for my box but the things I have at the moment I will add more. As you can see I change my plan and will try to do it different then the sketches I initially draw. But at the moment I included some things that represented who he was and things he liked that are reading, writing and travel.

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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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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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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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What if the items *were* the container? Much of the structure should be supported by pulleys and the weight of the objects themselves.

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I came into this collage mostly thinking about old maps and how my parents immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico. It kind of quickly took its own shape from there. I decided on a map of the Bay Area, with a focus on San Jose since this is pretty much where we've been for most of our lives/their time here. The eyes are meant to represent a sort of search for somewhere to belong and a brighter future while the suitcases and plane of course is moving and leaving it all behind. I decided I'd add a little color and something fun with the food, so I asked my parents what their favorite foods were. I came back with mole for my mom, and prime ribs with potatoes and vegetables for my dad. I left some empty space to hopefully bring the eye/focal point around the image and finally rest on San Jose.

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This is my final completed box. Since the last update, I’ve added a handwritten note that surprised me because it was like writing in my diary. I also added a sketch of some fruit because eating fruit with someone you love turn I to meaningful conversation(so it’s happen to me). I added a rose because my great grandmother loved growing any kind of flowers but especially roses in her front yard, she’s turned all of us women to be a green thumb. I didn’t want to squish it I to the box so I let them soak in a cup of water. Enjoy my project!