Personal Space

24 inches?

10 inches?

A mere 5 inches? 3? 2?

What is enough space? Who is allowed to be near?

How

Close

Must

We

Be?

Before my shoulder can touch yours?

Before I can lean on you? Link arms?

?

Hold your hand while we talk?

Maybe if you put your arm on my shoulder, forget our physical boundaries it will not be you or me but we – together.

Winning Photo Essay from CDAE in the World celebration held April 23, 2008.

Submitted by Carmen Jaquez, CDAE G'07, currently working in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo taken June 2006 in Awassa, Ethiopia during the CDAE course Green Awassa Atelier.

This winning essay opted to put the $200 prize into the CDAE schollarship available for students to use to cover costs related to CDAE international courses. This $200 will be specifically earmarked for UVM international students. Care to augment this award? Send a check made out to CDAE (memo is international schollarship) to CDAE, 205 Morrill Hall, Burlington, VT 05405.