Madeleine Ankhelyi

Madeleine Ankhelyi

The experience of drawing something by memory was incredibly fun. I realized as soon as I began my drawing what areas of the square mattered most to me by how well I remembered them. I'm an athlete concentrating in biology who lives in Dunster. While my drawing doesn't include most of the academic buildings of Harvard that I frequent, it does feature the athletic facilities and Dunster House prominently. The river stands out to me because of my many runs along it. Road traffic is also a large feature of my drawing, probably because I notice it in my daily life-- a lot of the time spent walking around the square is spent simply dodging cars. All in all, I definitely misplaced some street and buildings, and left out things like foot traffic, or tother higher details, but I think that this drawing is a fairly good representation of the square as it exists in my head.