Authors Statement – Liam Chattergy

In my vignettes, I used an authorial strategy of formatting my vignette on my name in order of specialty, and I used imagery to describe my Dadu in my other vignette. In my vignette “Because of Liam Neelson”, I think that having three paragraphs of my last, middle, and first name in that order is important because my last name has the richest history of influence, and my middle names are describing my parent’s cultures, while my first name wasn't picked with such deep meaning. It creates a flow of serious, to simple and keeps the name in order. I use imagery in my other vignette to illustrate the memory of my Dadu, “He was short, Indian brown skin, with a little white in his eyebrows and hairs. His eyes could usually be focused on the TV, but when looking through his storage of his paintings and teachings, his eyes would be focused on seeing his youth.” (Chattergy, Dadu).

For my artwork, I did art for Ethan’s “vignette name” and for Pohaku’s “vignette name”. For Pohaku’s art, I took inspiration from the idea that the islands were seeds that were burning. I did not know how to draw seeds well so I drew the islands on a stake over a campfire, the campfire being the missionaries and white businessmen that would one day burn the Hawaiian culture to nearly from memory. In Ethan’s art, I drew the memories he mentioned in his vignette, him looking at the picture book, him holding his brother in his orange shirt, and at the hospital for the birth of the baby brother.