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How has your awareness of Coast Salish Art in our community changed? Be specific and give at least one example. —

• My awareness has changed in how I now can tell how different the art from different indigenous groups look like, what the meanings behind the circles, triangles, ovals, and other shapes mean. How the circles represent the circles of live, the medicine wheel. I feel like I can now better see what the artist was most trying to portray in their piece of work, as little or big as it is.

Chosen Article – [Click here for the article]
(No pictures because it wouldn’t let me add them but I added links to every page mentioned)

Why did I chose this article? –
I chose this article because I’d heard of it some time ago and I found it interesting that a cat possibly tried to emulate someone like this.

What is it about? –
This article is about a cat, who we’ll call Julie, that when seeing people give money to a store in exchange for money proceeded to emulate the transaction.
“Seeing people come to buy fish and handing the owner money, this cat went out and got a leaf to pay for her fish.” » Continue Reading

TYKTWD Post!

I went to my mother’s work, she works at a place that sells slabs of stone for kitchens, bathrooms, and centerpieces.

Questions –

1. What did you hear, see, smell, and feel in the work environment on Nov. 1st? 

There were large slabs of varied materials for kitchens, bathrooms, and any other rooms. Made of porcelain, semi-precious stones, marble, and onyx. The warehouse was cold, you could occasionally hear saws from when people cut the slabs.  

2. What about the environment would motivate you to wake up every day to attend work? 

At my mother’s work at first it was somewhat nerve-wracking, I didn’t know anyone or where anything was. After a while though I found that the layout of the warehouse wasn’t too confusing and the people that my mother worked with were nice. I think that the friendly work environment and not super hard or confusing work would be the reasons I’d attend work. That, and the pay money. 

3. What about the work environment would discourage you from waking up every day to attend work? 

How early I had to wake up to go to my mother’s work was a large thing that discouraged me from liking attending, I felt like I was still half asleep throughout the day. The sky was still dark when we got to my mother’s work. 

4. What is ONE thing you found interesting about your workplace visit?

I found how friendly the workplace was a little interesting, usually people tell you about how they had a really bad coworker, or bad customer experiences; but, at my mother’s workplace everyone was kind, there were some customers that needed you to repeat information over and over to get it but otherwise the workplace cracked jokes and overall was really interesting to experience. I think that because of how much stigma there is around bad experiences at work, it seems like before you even know how it is this image of how bad and toxic workplaces can be is planted into your brain.

My Favorite slab I found –

How are you all doing?

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