果冻影院

果冻影院 Doctoral School鈥檚 annual cross-disciplinary competition is open to all current graduate students and academic staff, regardless of whether they are arts- or science-based.

IOE student Rommy (Department of Culture, Communication and Media) was one of six runners up for her work 鈥榃omen and Mothers鈥�. The six runners up and first prize winner were chosen from 337 images entered.

Writing about the drawing, which Rommy illustrated while working on her PhD research project, she said:聽

鈥淭his drawing shows one of the participants of my research project. As I was unable to see her face-to-face due to the pandemic, I contacted her through video calls and WhatsApp messages and then, I decided to make a portrait of her in order to observe her in more detail.

"While drawing the portrait, I realised that I was not only observing her, but also doing analysis. With every line on the paper, I was reflecting on her life and highlighting aspects associated to her identity such as her clothes and her make-up and, above all else, the strong bond she had forged with her only son.

"When I sent her the portrait she thanked me, and then added 鈥業 loved it, I love you. Remember we鈥檒l be waiting for you.鈥� As form of representation, this drawing reminded me these are people, not data.鈥�

Links

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• Department of Culture, Communication and Media
• Culture, Communication and Media MPhil/PhD

Images

• Top: Alejandro Walter Salinas Lopez for 果冻影院 Digital Media
• Above:聽'Women and Mothers' by Rommy Anabalon Schaaf