Word: changeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades-old, grafitti-ridden surfaces and drawers of Alexander Change's standard-issue Quincy House desk and wardrobe have been carefully covered with smooth, black contact paper. Leftover bits of the paper--cut and arranged into decorative patterns a la Henri Matisse--frame a massive, gloomy Jane's Addiction poster. "Just call them shards of contact paper framing a poster," the artist Chang says...
There is more black--a black poster of various distrorted images of director Spike Lee, a class project, grace another wall--but Alex Chang is more than an artist who likes to make things black. Fluorescent City-Step posters and a wooden-encased, 70s family-style television break up the room's pretenses at modernism, as do the walls, which Change has repainted a "warm" white: "Dusky Santa Fe Rose." Two long rectangular mirrors hang horizontally, the longer on the bottom, above his bed. "People usually go, 'ooh kinky!' but I just though they made my room much larger." Except...
These days, Chang is reluctant to mention his ice-skating past, a sport he began at age 5 but put aside after the 1992 World Championships to become a full-time student. The alarm clock set to 4 a.m., the practice rink reserved from 5 to 9:30 every morning, the late days at school to make up for lost time--they are in the past now. In fact, when Chang first arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1989, he didn't expect competitive skating to play any role at all in his college career. But the transition...
...felt everyone was so amazing. 'I have nothing,' I thought. Skating was in the past and I didn't know how to translate it into the present," Chang says. "I got here freshman year and realized we had to figure out 'where's my niche, where do I fit? What makes me special?...I didn't know how else I could do it other than skating. I'd done it for so long, committed my life...
...group is also seeking nonprofit status andwill not remain a business, Chang and Shapirosaid