Exploration in Digital LiteratureMain MenuIntroduction to Exploration in Digital LiteratureWorks CitedAbout the Student AuthorsLucy Dunlop0f87c154df9d1f5b9c9db43bf755c92458e4029aChristina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f0Deena Lang131c436bb0b401aee393cec40c25d6b298e0d091Amelia Tan072c06bdfc7e7ce98f28891a102d135bb24f1261
Cutting Away at Memories
12019-11-10T14:49:01-08:00Christina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f03556810plain2019-11-14T16:12:12-08:00Christina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f0While using the scissors to cut the cloth, information is revealed about the narrator's current state in life and about her relationship with her mother. The cloth details how the narrator's life as an adult is filled with laundry disasters and how her garments have been ruined by her negligence. The narrator then says that "with every loss I felt I let her down", which appears to be a reference to her mother. These statements, which are part of the work's narrative, allow the reader to explore the narrator's relationship with her mother, which seems to be one that is influential because even as an adult, the narrator considers how her mother would disapprove of her habits. The cloth also mentions how the narrator questions if she is supposed to be a certain shape and follows with a comment on how the narrator's mother would often talk about her small waist size. These statements suggest that the narrator feels unable to meet a certain size expectation, which is likely fueled by her mother's apparent fixation on having a small waist. The mechanics of this work, which involve cutting away at cloth, serve as a way of metaphorically representing how the narrator feels cut up because of her disorderly clothing situation and her thoughts of her mother's disappointment, and because of the reality that she is not as skinny as her mother may want her to be.
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12019-11-10T13:43:29-08:00Christina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f0Fitting the Pattern IntroductionChristina Dang22Fitting the Patternplain2019-11-14T19:40:36-08:00Christina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f0
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12019-11-12T12:24:03-08:00Cutting screencast3Screencast of "Fitting the Pattern" by Christine Wilksmedia/Recording #3.mp4plain2019-11-14T16:26:57-08:00