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Research Fulbright Core Scholar award to the Slovak Republic 2021.2022
I am an American artist, writer, and educator who embarked on an interdisciplinary research Fulbright Core Scholar award to the Slovak Republic for four months. This research project draws heavily from my personal lived experience in SK, from when I was 12 years old, and my father, Clifton Francis Bennett worked at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, while on a science grant. The project my dad created, One Pot, involves an accelerated process for the study of polymers: material made of small molecules produced from heat and pressure that alter and bond chains of larger molecules.
My research took the forms of interviews, photography, and essay-form writing, while gaining fluency in the chosen research, and depth in the discipline of creative non-fiction. This research project is intended to result in a book of essays as a reflection of multiple visits to the Slovak Republic, conversing between time periods. Set in 1972 to the present, this project focuses on Slovakia and personal and historical memory, and their relationship to modern life, and to broader historical, and social, political structures.
Image: Golden Ratio clock outside of Tesco, Kamenné Námestie, Bratislava, Slovakia 1972