Winter 2024
“Synergies”
Amidst the chaos and confusion of our college lives, art-making offers a quiet space to reconcile the internal and the external: the physical materiality of an artwork takes its shape from the immaterial headspace of the artist, while nature reconfigures those interior worlds. Sometimes inner turbulence is soothed by the beauty and tranquility of a physical environment, like water rippling on Carnegie Lake, or sunlight filling the library during an early morning study session; other times, introspection provides an escape from the noise and tensions of our campus, when the aesthetics of natural phenomena escape our view. What does the interplay between nature and human psychology look like in the literary and visual artworks of Princeton students?
- Rachel Brooks and Annie Cao, “Editors’ Note”