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San Jose Alcove Art A Califonia City At The Bottom of San Franciso Bay
In architecture, an alcove is a small recessed section of a room or an arched opening (as in a wall). The section is partially enclosed by such vertical elements as walls, pillars and balustrades. [from wikipedia]
"Beauty And Destruction" Alcove Art "Connect" Alcove Art "Dare To Dream" Alcove Art "Entangled" Alcove Art "Expand Your Horizons" Alcove Art "Our Hair Is Our History" Alcove Art "Pandora's Basement" Alcove Art "Seeking Transformation" Alcove Art "Untitled" Alcove Art "Who We Were, Is Who We Are" Alcove Art
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"Beauty And Destruction" Alcove Art, Artist: Madison Sciba, Silver Creek High School, San Jose, California

Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art.[from wikipedia]

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"Connect" Alcove Art, Artist: Minh Pham, Santa Teresa High School, San Jose, California

Only Connect is a British television quiz show presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell. In the series, teams compete in a tournament of finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues.[from wikipedia]

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"Dare To Dream" Alcove Art, Artist: Elsa_Engebretson, Willow Glen High School, San Jose, California

A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.[from wikipedia]

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"Entangled" Alcove Art, Artist: Suzy Kim, Leigh High School, San Jose, California

If you become entangled in problems or difficulties, you become involved in problems or difficulties from which it is hard to escape.[from collinsdictionary]

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"Expand Your Horizons" Alcove Art, Artist: Cindy Lu, Willow Glen High School, Back of SJU Hammer Theater, San Jose, California, Just south of San Francisco Bay

To increase the range of one's knowledge, understanding, or experience. Travel can help to broaden your horizons/mind.[from websters]

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"Our Hair Is Our History" Alcove Art, Artist: Dylan Crooks, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, California

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals. The human body, apart from areas of glabrous skin, is covered in follicles which produce thick terminal and fine vellus hair. [from wikipedie]

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"Pandora's Basement" Alcove Art, Artist: Angela Li, Piedmont Hills High School, San Jose, California

The Pandora myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world, according to which, Pandora opened a jar (pithos; commonly referred to as "Pandora's box") releasing all the evils of humanity.[from wikipedia]

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"Seeking Transformation" Alcove Art, Artist: Suzy Kim, Leigh high School, San Jose, California, Just south of San Francisco Bay

n broad terms, transformation design is a human-centered, interdisciplinary process that seeks to create desirable and sustainable changes in behavior and form -- of individuals, systems and organizations. It is a multi-stage, iterative process of applying design principles to large and complex systems.[from wikipedia]

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"Untitled" Alcove Art, Artist: Kristiene Pagaragan, Silver Creek High School, San Jose, California

Having no title or right to rule.[from webster online]

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"Who We Were, Is Who We Are" Alcove Art, Artist: Joann Nguyen, Piedmont Hills High School, San Jose, California

We Are Who We Are is a 2020 coming-of-age drama television miniseries co-created and directed by Luca Guadagnino for HBO and Sky Atlantic.[from wikipedia]


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