’Teachers, Parents, Friends, and Fellow Members of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’ is an extended contemplation on the tradition of public speeches stretching and appropriating the format of the Valedictorian
graduation speech.
Classified by order of appearance, this publication traces every person, place, object, and entity (such as seasons and movies) that I encountered since arriving in Amsterdam to study in August 2016, up until my graduation ceremony in June 2019.
With radical honesty, the publication is an examination of how these encounters—whether or not they resulted in a positive outcome—had an undeniable effect on the person I was at the time of was graduating.
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