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Reflections , the Annual Literary and Arts Magazine of Procedures A REFLECTION S THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL VOL 49, ISSUE 1, 2020 Agitation REED ZUVER Grade 10, Photograph REFLECTION S THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL VOL 49, ISSUE 1, 2020 P H O T O S : Mission Statement Editorial Policy and E R I K Reflections , the annual literary and arts magazine of Procedures A D R E The Berkeley Carroll Upper School, seeks to tap the vibrant, The Reflections staff is a small, dedicated group of Z N E creative energy circulating in the classrooms, hallways— students that meets weekly over homemade brownies and R and, this year, Zoom calls—of our school. Berkeley Carroll’s popcorn dusted with Himalayan pink salt—even during mission is to foster an environment of critical, ethical, and Quarantine, even during Dr. Hughes’s paternity leave—to global thinking; Reflections contributes by making space discuss and develop a shared interest in art and literature. for artistic conversation and collaboration, in our meetings In the fall, Reflections members establish the magazine’s and in this volume. high standards, solicit submissions, and refine their own works in progress. In February, the editors preside over Reflections small groups which read and critique anonymous student What’s in a name? “Reflection” implies both a mirroring art and literature submissions. After the preliminary and a distortion: something recognizably strange and critiques—and with helpful suggestions from the art strangely recognizable. In selecting and arranging the department—the editors carefully consider feedback from visual and written work in this magazine, we seek to create the entire Reflections team before choosing and editing this experience of broken mirrors: reflections that are just a the final selections and laying out the magazine. Editors bit off, refracted and bent to reveal uncanny resemblances. then submit all materials to our fantastic printer, review Take, for instance, Daniel Chian’s “I Want to Live in a Greta the proofs, and distribute copies of our beautiful Gerwig Movie” paired with Shailee Sran’s “Filter.” The magazine—through our library, at admissions events, and, delicate diaphanous effect of Sran’s photograph, capturing this year, to anyone lucky enough to find the PDF on our light filtered through and framed by several screens— school website. translucent sky-lights and paper-thin parasols—reflects Reflections is a student-run, -led, and -organized coterie; Chian’s sepia-toned summer desires, his yearning to “feel neither the editors nor the staff receive class credit for framed in gold on a silver screen.” Here the broken mirror their work. We are proud members of the Columbia effect seeks to provide the audience with new frames and Scholastic Press Association. The striking artwork and filters through which to re-imagine everyday experience. writing in this magazine were all crafted by Berkeley We hope in these pairings of written and visual reflections Carroll Upper School students, sometimes to fulfill class that you catch glimpses both strange and familiar, new assignments, but always from the engines of their own patterns from ordinary encounters. creativity. 2 STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSISTANT EDITOR STAFF Jordan Hickson Noa Brown Bernadette Frishberg Charlotte Hampton ARTS EDITOR FACULTY ADVISORS Ella Sran Shailee Sran Erika Drezner Ellie Schneider Jacob Hughes Zoë Krashes Lucija Jurevics Edito r’s Statement This year’s Reflections would not have been possible Even though our normal publishing process had to be without our faculty advisers, Ms. Drezner and Dr. quickly adapted to an online setting this year due to Hughes, whose support was crucial in producing this the turmoil of COVID-19 and the inability to return to volume. The publication of this magazine would not school after our Spring Break, my amazing co-editors be complete without the help of Linda Adams, and our fearless faculty advisors worked through this Berkeley Carroll’s director of strategic communica - unexpected challenge to create a beautiful and tions, and the design talents of Bob Lane at insightful magazine as always. StudioLane, Inc. We’re also grateful for the guidance and support of Dr. Daniel, Ms. Nguyen, and Mr. Lastly, I would like to highlight how many of my peers Smaller-Swift in the Art Department. And of course, have used their individual crafts to address and take Reflections would be blank without the thoughtful part in the much larger conversation around race, writing and intricate artwork that is shared with us especially around Asian-American and Black identities, each year. that is currently happening in our country. Cleo Lynn’s extraordinary work, through a wide array of media, This year, as is tradition, we are excited to have a specifically her pieces “Cleo’s China” and “My Fight wonderful collection of personal essays from our Against America vs. Asia,” were already powerful in a Voice & Style writing courses as well as our Senior pre-COVID age. However, in the context of the Anti- Essay class. We also have an abundance of poetry Asian sentiment sparked by the novel coronavirus, her from both our 10th-grade poetry class and our Spring pieces regarding her own Chinese-American identity Intensive, Poetry in Performance. Finally, we’re excited take on a new layer of meaning. Likewise, in light of to feature several pieces of art made on calf-skin the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and parchment and pressed with gold foil created in our Ahmaud Arbery and the resulting national protests, Illuminated Manuscripts Spring Intensive. certain works in this year’s magazine have become 3 especially important. Among many other powerful and I believe these pieces reflect the way that Berkeley historically resonant works in the magazine, Maris Carroll students engage with, observe, and challenge Hayes’ painting “The Founding Fathers Dispel Africans the communities around us. I hope you find the work from The Shining City on a Hill” urges us to examine inside these pages as enjoyable and enlightening as I what our country was built upon, and Brianna have. Johnson’s outstanding personal essay “How to Think Like a Black Person” does the emotional labor of delving into Black experience in the United States—specifically Jordan Hickson in New York City. Both of these works are integral to the Editor-in-Chief, Spring 2020 ongoing conversation about institutional racism in our country and, further, the movement to end police brutality. 4 PO E TRY FICTION 10 The Path 13 Enjoy Your Stay Ella Sran, Grade 10 Julian Ansorge, Grade 12 27 When Atlas Sobbed 16 Scarcity Asa Khalid, Grade 10 Evelina Levy, Grade 12 32 I Want to Live in a Greta Gerwig Movie 53 Life And Death Often Meet In Waffle Daniel Chian, Grade 10 House Parking Lots 38 for the two women named Jane, Bernadette Frishberg, Grade 12 who were buried with their husbands 90 Closet Body Nichole Fernandez, Grade 11 Irene Madrigal, Grade 12 45 My Ancestry.com Results Asa Khalid, Grade 10 51 Elegy for Laurel Hollow Noa Brown, Grade 10 64 Recipe for Attraction Talin Schell, Grade 10 71 Pantoum of Refusal Ella Sran, Grade 10 79 Dear Angry Black Girl Asa Khalid, Grade 10 89 Bath Abigail Lienhard, Grade 12 105 What I Miss Charlotte Hampton, Grade 11 110 Bird Ella Sran, Grade 10 117 Intent Nichole Fernandez, Grade 11 Contemporary Garments 108 Prophecy for October, 2003 LUCA YANG Ruby Salvatore-Palmer, Grade 11 Grade 12, Digital 5 HUMOR PERSONAL ESSAY 41 How to Completely Screw Up 20 True Horoscopes Getting Your California Learner’s Permit, Bernadette Frishberg, Grade 12 In Three Easy Steps 22 Tapping In Clay Johnson, Grade 12 Abigail Sears-Mauro, Grade 12 61 The Pede 28 Hey, Bees Kalif Levine, Grade 12 Zoe Kortes, Grade 10 81 Wretched Child 35 I am God and It Gets Worse Hope Swetow, Grade 12 Bernadette Frishberg, Grade 12 101 Ulta Would Never 46 Sleeping Bears Samantha Rosario, Grade 10 Jordan Hickson, Grade 12 113 Sasha 67 Apartment 7E Hope Swetow, Grade 12 Julian Ansorge, Grade 12 75 Concerts in the Forest Emily Li, Grade 12 93 How to Think Like a Black Person Brianna Johnson, Grade 12 98 Squeak George Humphreville, Grade 12 106 9 and Under Noa Brown, Grade 10 118 Realms of the Dead Jordan Hickson, Grade 12 Contemporary Garments LUCA YANG Grade 12, Digital 6 ART Cover 33 Filter China’s Left Behind Generation: Shailee Sran, Grade 12, Photograph Lost Childhood Cleo Lynn, Grade 12, Digital 34 Convalescent Rowan DeWitt, Grade 11, Painting (Acrylics) Inside Front Cover Agitation 37 I’ve Got Ideas Reed Zuver, Grade 10, Photograph Isabella Rykoff, Grade 12, Mixed Media (Vellum, Gouache, and Gold Leaf) 5-9 Contemporary Garments Luca Yang, Grade 12, Digital 39 Invitation Sophia Sondey, Grade 12, Ceramic 11 Acacia Noa Brown, Grade 10, Painting (Acrylics) 40 Avenue U and East 15th Daniel Chian, Grade 10, Painting (Acrylics) 12 Girl in the Mirror Adeleen Rosner, Grade 11, Photograph 43 AVX Charlotte Hampton, Grade 11, Photograph 15 Adrift Ruby Kass, Grade 10, Painting (Acrylics) 44 The Founding Fathers Dispel Africans from The Shining City on a Hill 18 Seasons of the Soul Maris Hayes, Grade 11, Painting (Acrylics) Jordan Hickson, Grade 12, Mixed Media (Linoleum Block Print, Ink, and Watercolor) 49 Headache Caroline Tuck, Grade 12, Painting 23 Fruits of Life (Pen and Watercolor) Daniel Chian, Grade 10, Mixed Media (Oil Paint, Watercolor, Light Modeling Paste, 50 Study in Glass and Modge Podge) Zoe Kortes, Grade 10, Painting (Acrylics) 24 Orifice 52 The Way Home Alma-Lilas Anzalone, Grade 11, Ceramic Shailee Sran, Grade 12, Photograph 26 Eye Contact 57 The FDR Billie Wynn, Grade 11, Painting (Acrylics) Anya Renzi, Grade 10, Painting (Acrylics) 31 Persephone Sophia Sondey, Grade 12, Ceramic 7 58 My Fight Against America vs.
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