One Size Fits All

Chris Knox @ Goose Hollow Student Housing

Chris no longer lives in Goose Hollow; the exorbitant cost of the student housing facility forced him to drop out of college halfway through his Senior year and move out of his apartment.  Three weeks into his last semester at PNCA, Chris found himself owing the school $4000 for his living quarters.  Financial Aid officials informed him that, as per regulation, any debt over $1000 prohibited him from registering for upcoming courses.  Having no cosigner for his loans and no immediate scholarship opportunities, Chris was well and truly fucked.  He attempted to remedy the situation, immersing himself in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, where bursars and secretaries and suits would acknowledge the absurdity of this one-size-fits-all prohibition and promise to help, but would ultimately have no influence or impact on the situation.  No loopholes could be found in this vicious cycle and Chris had no choice but to drop out of school and leave student housing.

As his final project, Chris created a paper mache eagle head, feathered it with torn up syllabi and wore it to his last day of classes.  In the halls of the academy, he created an installation/performance art piece, in which he used notes, tests, past projects, and other accumulated PNCA memories to assemble a giant nest.  The performance culminated with him abandoning his nest in protest, leaving behind the remnants of an ambition left incomplete; an education cut short by haphazard rules, slumlord mentality, and bureaucratic impotence.  

Chris is now living in a two bedroom apartment with four friends, writing comic books and working to pay off his debt.  He has no plans to return to PNCA and noticeably shudders at the mere mention of that particular institution.