To express her love of Colgate, Georgia Carey ’21 created this illustration in March after the spring semester ended early. The economics major and art minor had been studying abroad in Sydney, Australia, but had to return to her hometown of San Rafael, Calif.
“My best friend, Lexi Clegg ’21, and I were talking about how much we missed school,” Carey explains. During her senior year of high school, Carey had done a similar drawing of the Golden Gate Bridge, representing her home state. “It was a powerful symbol to me,” she says. “After speaking with my friend, I realized Colgate is my second home, so I wanted to commemorate it as well — especially in this hard time and with the Class of 2020’s graduation approaching.”
Using paint pens, Carey created the artwork out of words such as “chapel,” “tree,” and “sky.” Written in the sky is the message “best place on earth” — “because that is most certainly what Colgate is,” she says.
Carey’s first memory of the chapel: During first-year orientation, when all the new students gathered, “the person next to us had to make a fist, and we had to try and break that fist,” she recalls. “I am still friends with the person whose fist I couldn’t even break!”