images by eric nelson text and photos by mohammad where IS our its the first week of the school and as a fourth year multi-media student, for the first time in my life at eccad, i’ve been successful in getting a work space. i don’t exactly know which room number my space is in. it's the last room on the right hand side in the long hallway on the second floor, the room in which people are tradition- ally used to build up wooden walls and create private working spaces. it takes me and wade about couple of days to build our space but once we're finished, we have a well built room with walls on three sides and curtains on one side that separates it from the hallways and the rest of the room. i’m has now a rifle in her hand and she is shooting at an innocent looking male body that is positioned on the comer of the road with a bag over his head. i read it as a poor effort by a young artist who wants to challenge some- thing, maybe anything. its an effort to create controversy. first thing that comes to my mind is how should i respond to this piece, or whether or not i should respond at all. should i take it seriously or should i just ignore it and don’t give the artist what he/she wants. the open space that has the image on its wall is next to damian’s space and glad to have a private space so i can make art without people seeing it before the time i want them to. everything is just fine until my first visit to my space couple of days later. as soon as i enter the room and _ passed by mackenzie’s space, i saw something on the wall in the other side of the big room. the image is up in some one’s space that doesn't have walls around it. same as any other enthusiastic art student in an art college i get closer to look at the picture. its the familiar image from the poster for “take back the night” event, that’s basically about woman in van- couver getting together once a year to protest against the male violence against women. but what i see on the wall is neither the poster nor the image from the poster. it is actually a drawing that someone has done around the image of protesting women. the artist has pasted the image on a piece of white paper and then has extended the lines to change the context of the image. it looks like the marching women are just about to reach the edge of a waterfall that takes them down to a few swimming sharks. also the leading woman in the image reality or a construct? take back the night taking its toll, a white hetero sexual man gets shot by angry feminist protesters. when i approach damian he says that he knows the guy. i say ‘humma guy, no wonder’. his name is eric nelson and he is a third year print-making student. i don’t know him at all and i even can’t remember anything about him after damian explains his appearance to me. from damian’s space i can see another drawing with huge words that reads “women ask for it” i continue thinking about the piece and finally decide to comment on the works. although i condemn censorship in any form, i think as long as me, as a member of the college community, is forced to look at such an image, i have the right to comment on it. i think as long as mr. nelson had not built walls around his space (to transform it into a private space) ,i have the right to question his motives and respond to the existing works in front of me; because i believe a college is a public space and in a public space a public debate around the issues concerning that space can take place. images by eric nelson text and photos by mohammad where is our its the first week of the school and as a fourth year multi-media student, for the first time in my life at ‘eccad, i’ve been successful getting a a: work space. i don’t exactly know which room number my space is in. it's the last room on the right hand side in the long hallway on the second floor, the room in which people are tradition- zZ ally used to build up wooden walls and create private working spaces. it takes me and wade about couple of days to build our space but once we're finished, we have a well built room. with walls on three sides and curtains ‘on one side that separates it from the hallways and the rest of the room. i'm has now a rifle in her hand and she is shooting at an innocent looking male body that is positioned on the comer of the road with a bag over his head. i read it as a poor effort by a young artist who wants to challenge some- thing, maybe anything. its an effort to create controversy. first thing that comes to my mind is how should i respond to this piece, ‘or whether or not i should respond atall. should i take it seriously or should i just ignore it and don’t give the artist what he/she wants. the ‘open space that has the image on its wall is next to damian‘s space and glad to havea private space so i can make art without people seeing it before the time i want them to. everything is just fine until my first visit to my space couple of days later. as. soon as i enter the room and. passed by mackenzie’s space, i saw something on the wall in the other side of the big room. the image is up in some one’s space that doesn't have walls around it. same as any other enthusiastic art student in an art college i get closer to look at the picture. its the familiar image from the poster for “take back the night” event, that’s basically about woman in van- ‘couver getting together once a year to protest against the male violence against women. but what i see on the wall is neither the poster nor the image from the poster. it is actually a drawing that someone has done around the image of protesting women. the artist has pasted the image on a piece of white paper and then has extended the lines to change the context of the image. it looks like the marching women are just about to reach the edge of a waterfall that takes them down to a few swimming sharks. also the leading woman in the image reaity ora const take back th nigh tating ttl, white eter sexual man gets sot by angry fens protesters, ‘when i approach damian he says that he knows the guy. i say humma guy, no wonder’. his name is eric nelson and he is a third year print-making student. i don’t know him at all and i even can’t remember anything about him after damian explains his appearance to me. from damian’s space i can see another drawing with huge words that reads “women ask for it” i continue thinking about the piece and finally decide to comment on the works. although i condemn censorship in any form, i think as long as me, as a member of the college community, is forced to look at such an image, i have the right to comment on it. i think as long as mr. nelson had not built walls around his space (to transform it into a private space) ,i have the right to question his ‘motives and respond to the existing works in front of me; because i believe a college is a public space and in a public space a public debate around the issues concerning that space can take place.