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In thinking about the location for my piece of our final project, I’ve been trying to reflect on which spaces on campus have been most meaningful to me. My mind initially went to Marshall Field. I lived on campus freshman and sophomore year, in the comfortable little bubble of the Marshall Uppers. I used to love walking across the field on sunny days, occasionally plopping down with a book in one hand and coffee in the other, basking among the seagulls’ cries. The field has since changed, the grass ripped up and out of the ground leaving behind only a large patch of dirt. That part of campus has transformed so drastically from a space I found so familiar to one that’s now unrecognizable. It prompted me to think about change as a whole and my initial discomfort with it. But change can be a beautiful thing, a process that reminds you that you’re growing alongside everything else.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Glissant’s text as well, especially the idea of obscurity and how we present ourselves to each other and the way we act when no one’s watching. I’ve always found this to be such a fascinating concept, and I become hyper-aware of the way I’m behaving around different people. I want to highlight one line in particular, “Because you have the right to be obscure, first to yourself.” I think this goes hand in hand with the nature of change, because although we enter and exit unique stages in our lives, at our core we are still the same. My appearance will wear with time, my opinions will develop into new ones as I keep learning, and yet, there will undoubtedly always be a piece of me that enjoys nothing more than lying in the sun with a good story.