Senior Project Advisor
Thomas Hummel
Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Spring 2025
Keywords
summer camp, anthology, craft, conceptual improvisation, creative writing, environmental studies, process, translation, transformation, games, dance, play, childhood, nostalgia, creativity, collage, collaboration, imagination, youth, friendship, abstraction, curation
Abstract
Tapestry/Unraveling collects and weaves webs, describes and defies. As an anthology preoccupied with and invested in the nostalgia and wonder associated with summer camp, it mobilizes evidence of tangible witness. The author, building on her histories as camper, adolescent, leader, and educator, utilizes associative thought and methodological collision to question what it means for one life stage to become another, one person to become another, one form to become another. She asks: How are anthologies our pasts, presents, and futures? How do we destabilize our understandings of nostalgia, inherited power, and intergenerational care?
Tapestry/Unraveling is not a summer camp guidebook. Nor does it reflect on the histories of summer camp. It illustrates camp as a personal process of change. Both summer and camp have been abstracted into agents of transformation. Anthology is the medium and scaffolding.
Department
Honors
Recommended Citation
Sager, Adelle, "Tapestry/Unraveling" (2025). WWU Honors College Senior Projects. 994.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors/994
Type
Text
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.
Language
English
Format
application/pdf