BU student wins art show’s caption contest
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This article was published 21/12/2024 (271 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Brandon University student Mercy Emoghene has won a caption contest organized for an interactive art show at the university’s Curve Gallery.
Emoghene, who’s a second-year pre-nursing student, was awarded a portrait of Newfoundland puffins for her winning caption. She was unable to recall her contest entry but said she was glad to take home a puffin portrait of her choice.
“A proud moment to win this beautiful puffin photo at school and seeing it displayed feels like a dream. Nature knows how to pose,” Emoghene was quoted as saying in a press release issued by the university. “The photo is beautiful. It reminds me that nature always has a way of showing off its beauty — you just have to pause and appreciate it.”
Brandon University student Mercy Emoghene (left) and Alysha Farrell, dean of education. (Submitted)
The photo Emoghene selected features a single puffin filling the frame, eyeing the camera with wings slightly out and a puffed-up chest, the university press release added.
It also stated that the puffin looks somehow on alert and at the same time off-balance, adding it drew submitted captions ranging from “Power posing” and “When I’m on top of the class” to those that alluded to the perils of over-indulging at buffets.
The art show featured portraits of Atlantic Puffins — colourfully beaked birds with engaging personalities — and invited viewers to suggest their proposed tag lines for the varied and often silly poses that the puffins were captured in.
Other puffin pictures were just as quirky, displaying characters as vibrant as the colours in their beaks, the release added.
The pictures were taken by Alysha Farrell, dean of education, on a 50th-birthday trip to Newfoundland, including the town of Elliston, where the puffins were photographed.
Farrell said she was happy to share some puffin joy throughout the fall term.
“As an avid birder and nature photographer, I was more than happy to share some puffin joy throughout the fall term,” Farrell said. “I shared some of my photographs with colleagues and the idea for the interactive exhibition, ‘A Circus of Puffins’ was born.”
The university’s community members were invited throughout the fall term to create their own captions for the photographs.
Farrell also expressed appreciation for BU’s chief information officer, Melanie Sucha, who oversees the library and where the Curve Gallery is located, the library staff, and her Deans’ Council colleagues for their encouragement and support.
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