In going to a small town liberal arts college, you can expect to encounter a fairly self-selecting group that shares a distinctive mentality. In this project, I hoped to map out an identity that reflected this mindset--which pervades throughout this campus--onto the context in which it is forced to exist.
My main intention was to juxtapose an image of how students viewed themselves with how they were actually seen in a Midwestern setting. It is no secret that Oberlin considers itself as constisting of a pool of open-minded and accepting discourse. However, the students' inescapable backgrounds inevitably push to the foreground, creating a rift between them and their surroudings. ultimately, we struggle to become the unbiased Jack's and Jane's of all trades we would prefer to see ourselves as. Instead, we remain distant and awkward in a landscape that is not our own.
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