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Both images below are part of the student exhibition The View from Here. Untitled, by English Grant Artist’s Statement: English Grant is a senior at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., working to receive her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Photography. In her work, she is constantly pushing the boundaries of the ordinary, using everyday subject matter to create images that are wholly unique and unexpected. In this series she expands on this idea, creating images along the pathways that she travels literally every day. Instead of stepping off the beaten path, she finds that the bigger challenge is to find the beauty within it. On Christmas day everything passed off peaceably with the exception of a difficulty between Mr. Joe Bailey and Mr. George Childs in which the latter received a severe cut to the neck, by David Mcgowan Artist’s Statement: David Mcgowan is a senior USC photography major. His work explores the consequences of change by contrasting the reality of today with the reality of the past. The textile industry came to South Carolina in the late 1800s, and by harnessing the power of our rivers, brought thousands of jobs to the state, ushering in an era of change, modernization, and prosperity. The Piedmont was once a madhouse of whirring machinery and rapid construction. With Mills came Railroads, and with Railroads came Modernity. The decline of the domestic textile industry and the eventual shut down of the mill changed everything. columbiamuseum.org 7