if efforts to keep things as transparent as possible, i would like to note that i handed my paper in as an hard copy to anne, ive expressed tht seredip doesnt feel like a safe or nice space for me so i wanted to make sure that was clear. 

I very much enjoyed our class today, and took pictures of the "equations" of Baldwin, Parks, and our other texts that each small group drew on the board. I post them here in case you'd like to admire your own work and/or reflect on what your classmates created.

...is this very strong piece by Todd Frankel, published in the Washington Post on Sept. 30:
"The cobalt pipeline: From dangerous tunnels in Congo to consumers’ mobile tech"
traces the supply chain from small-scale Congolese mines, to a Chinese company that
supplies some of the cobalt that is used in Apple’s iPhones:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/the-cobalt-pipeline-from-dangerous-tunnels-in-congo-to-consumers-mobile-tech/2016/09/30/66103382-5a8c-11e6-9767-f6c947fd0cb8_story.ht

i did my citations in a way that read better as a doc so my paper is attached. hope it's okay! serendippanic as usual.. 

The painting sits about 4 feet above the ground on a blank white wall. It is about an arm’s length wide, and ¾ of an arm high. The canvas itself is inside a box with an inch of space between the edge of the canvas and the frame of the box. The upper left quadrant of the painting has the darkest shades, as well as the thickest layers of paint which make this the central focal point. The paint is applied liberally, with thick, overlapping strokes that draw the eyes down and towards the bottom right quadrant. Not only do these strokes overlap each other, but they pop off the page creating a three dimensional representation of a rough, rocky landscape. Although the color palette is dark and simple, the variety of strokes create many different shades and tones of blue, green and purple.

The canvas is about 18 inches by 18 inches and floats in a plain white wooden frame without the edges touching the sides. The painting has a large color palette including purple, green, yellow, blue, and white. These are surprising combinations of colors which work to emphasize each other. The paint has varied thickness and texture throughout, with smooth, pointed, rough, and drooping sections. This is a landscape in Switzerland depicting an abstract interpretation of a white house against a purple mountain. Just to the right of the center is a small mostly white, roughly house-shaped form. The house has a smooth texture which contrasts with the roughly textured tree standing beside it and of the surrounding mountain and ground.