Caden Jones

Collection of artifacts, and reflections on the learning objectives completed in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program dedicated to Community Psychology and Culture, Literature, and the Arts at University of Washington Bothell 🎭

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Chapbook-TaBoo/Kink capstone compilation

TaBoo Caden Jones Chapbook (2015) Capstone Final Project and On University of Washington Bothell BISIA 311: Creative Writing: Poetry Table Of Contents: Section One: The Pop Larry’s Valentine Jouse Hife Pressure Pop Pulp pop body nation Section Two: The Skeletons Ta...

When approaching this final essay I wanted to take a more creative approach than the traditional essay in order to reflect on my experiences I have accumulated while pursuing my academic career. My years at university have been defined not just by what I have learned through learning objectives, or other educational goals, but by the experiences I have had outside of the classroom which have defined me and allowed to to develop into who I am. My intersectional identities have shaped my personality and the lens through which I see the world, which further impacts how I approach psychology, which is my primary focus of study. Through this chronological account of poems showcasing some life experiences I hope to shed some light on the unique ways my life has been shaped, and illuminate how I have learned to self express through my Culture, Literature, and the Arts degree.

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Final 499 Exhibition 😇

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This final assignment of the Ur Text was written in Jeanne Hueving's BISIA 319 A: Interdisciplinary Arts. The assignment was one that was given in the beginning of the class, and was to be revised and turned in halfway through the quarter with both the first and last drafts. This piece, though it is not my favorite as far as composition goes, represents a pivotal moment in my life when I was discovering my true gender, and my gender presentation, for the first time in my life. The piece is three vignettes strung together tapping into confusion, exploration, pain, fear, and loss, surrounding gender and religion. The original artist statement is such: "He was stuck inside and outside of himself, forever forcing himself to be what others saw him to be. There was thought to be no greater comfort than that of having solidarity in knowing who you are through the eyes of others, but when he is nothing but bones he had to crumble. Through struggle and blindness do we find ourselves, and only through that recollection in word does it solidify. Only then does he become himself. Only then can he shed her skin and embrace his strong capable body."

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This is a painting created while taking an BIS 483 B: Arts in Context: Art on Site with Professor Aaron Bergman. This piece is made on canvas with oil paints, as well as charcoal pencil. The basis of this piece was meant to shed light on my experience dating a woman with borderline personality disorder. It is part of a collection of paintings, that is still in progress, called Borderline delving into the wide variety of expressions that can be seen in those who struggle with BPD. This painting is meant to capture the loneliness and isolation I observed in my partner struggling with BPD. By expressing my observations through this painting, I am further able to understand her illness, and thereby understand her.

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This is a painting created while taking an BIS 483 B: Arts in Context: Art on Site with Professor Aaron Bergman. This piece is made on canvas with oil paints. The basis of this piece was meant to shed light on my experience dating a woman with borderline personality disorder. It is part of a collection of paintings, that is still in progress, called Borderline delving into the wide variety of expressions that can be seen in those who struggle with BPD. This painting is meant to capture the excessive emotion and inability to control emotion I observed in my partner.

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Thank You Sex- Clamour Publication

Thank You Sex My lips parted Two words fell slowly out of my lips, as I melted into the mattress “Thank you,” I said. “Thank you?” Her brows furrowed. “Here I am having sex with you, and you thank me?” She hovered her lovely frame above me Her skin was made of crystal, and she smelled of smoke and 
Lavender Turning her head just right the sun reflected honey gold in each iris Stained glass amber set in her eyes I opened my lips To excuse myself Or to explain my feelings away But kept silent Because for the first time, I had been with Someone who Loved me. Jones, C. C. (98134). Clamor. 600 South Spokane, WA: Consolidated Press. This is a section from the Clamor UWB Literary and Arts Journal, published 2016, which features a poem I authored titled, "Thank You Sex". I originally wrote the poem for BISIA 311: Creative Writing: Poetry. The poem is important to me because it encapsulates an important time of my life where I was young in love, as well as conflicted with what it meant to be in a serious relationship. Having this poem be published in a literary arts journal was validating, and reinforced me to continue pursuing creative writing

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This attachment is an unpublished draft copy of a chapbook written in Rebecca Brown's BIS 410 Creative Writing: Prose class. The chapbook was created through a series of vignettes delving into pop star Kesha's fictional childhood based off research as well as my own interpretation and interjections of fantasy. This assignment was wildly fun to create. It forced me to think in a critical way about how to make a real person come to life on a page, while still allowing me to influence and determine her story as freely as I wished. It was a therapeutic experience because I was able to step back and process some of my own feelings and fears through Kesha's life, of which I retold and manipulated.

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Transgender Community and "Passing" as a Site of Individualism is a short essay I wrote in BIS 300 under Professor Behler. The essay is inspired by Peter Berger's The Homeless Mind, which discusses how individuals in modern societies have broken away from the unified life worlds that were offered in earlier societies and have instead created his or her own web of life worlds, which draws the individual away from his or her life world of origin. In relation to transgender individuals, this breaking away and creation of his/her/their own life world occurs when the individual discovers or is in the process of finding their true gender identity. What was once offered as the way of knowing life to function changes, and new worlds are demanded to be found or created.

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Attached is a first draft of an assignment I completed for BISIA 490 Creative Writing Workshop, which was an assignment on perception, and how perception can be manipulated or controlled through the use of syntax and imagery. I actually continued the assignment into a longer project that I was very proud of called Rosewood, which was to be a memoir on my experience struggling with Anorexia with Bulimic tendencies, and treatment that followed. The project accumulated 40 pages, however I have since lost it as my laptop broke down, and I did not have another electronic copy. This, however, is the first couple pages that inspired Rosewood, and though I no longer have the larger project, this short assignment still holds the sentimental value of Rosewood, and potential for reinvigoration.

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Attached is the link to an collaborative project completed in BISIA410 Advanced Creative Writing Workshop with Beth Secor, Caroline Chloe Lee, an anonymous contributor, and myself. The project was inspired by Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, which is a collection of stories from films and novels that work together to create new meaning. In Lineated in the Night Sky, our collaborative piece, we utilized similar writing styles of disjunction to answer questions that were gathered collaboratively as a class, which were answered individually and collected into a whole, which were then organized in a synergetic fashion.

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Attached to this is a link to the most significant artifact I created in my years at University or Washington Bothell. This chapbook is an accumulation of poems I created in Creative Writing: Poetry with Sarah Dowling. The poems were mainly inspired by two authors: Jennifer Tamayo, and Jack Spicer. Both authors use of imagery and blunt syntax inspired many of the poems the the chapbook, especially most of Section One: The Pop, as well as Taboo and Yellow Cells in Section Two: The Skeletons. The work collectively encapsulates my creative writing evolution from the beginning years of my writing, and taps into a more highly experimental form of writing and self expression than I could do previously.