burntout

My memories of the past are contained in the puzzle pieces that I struggle to fit together from the clues hidden within my google photos and nodding along as if I remember the stories from nights out with friends. I don’t think that’s how life’s supposed to be. I think I’m doing it the wrong way.

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Miranda Nicusanti
Entre Aquí y Allá / Between Here and There

As a child, I understood that my existence is product of my parents love. At 17, I understood that I am not only an expression of love, but that my way of being was crafted by my environment. Every five months, I get on a plane from Chicago, where I live, and I return to the country where I was born, Puerto Rico. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, 42,000 feet in the air, I wonder where home is? Is it the place from where I took off or the one I will land in?

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Someday My Art Will Die

Growing up, I never imagined that the melodic music that filled my family’s homes could eventually fade away. I had never imagined that my grandparents could get old. To me, they were supposed to be young forever, but soon the reality sunk in. In the years we spent apart, I had grown into an adult. I’ve become the type of person who never leaves home without a camera and on this trip, I knew my purpose.

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Dennis Dizon: In Process

As a 22-year-old about to enter the real world, musician Dennis Dizon balances entering adulthood and the music industry simultaneously. Dizon is a musical theater BFA student at Emerson College set to graduate this spring. But on top of his degree, he is attempting to finish his first EP. With no background in music production, Dizon has taken on this project to kickstart a dream he’s always had.

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The Rise of Nostalgia

A rise in nostalgia among teens, with trends such as polaroid cameras and Y2K accessories coming back in style, Nancy Nan believes that this can be attributed to this current generation growing up in a constantly changing and complicated world full of unprecedented times and technology. She wanted these pictures to convey the “simplistic” nature of the past that many teens are nostalgic for from when they were young and didn’t have to worry about their ever changing self image.

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Magazine

As the early 2000s continue to influence current trends, the resurgence of early 2000 magazine spreads has popped up all over Instagram. Here, Nancy Nan participates in this trend by collaging her friends in a way that reminds her of the magazines she grew up with.

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