Watergate Scandal

My project is Watergate: Burglary, Scandal, and LIES!!! Our project is about the Watergate scandal and the people who are involved.
We had a lot of pictures and quotes of the event, a wrench (which is a plumbing tool), a phone, and a cassette tape. The plumbing tool represents the plumbers, which is the name of the burglars. The phone represents Deep Throat, which is an informer who released information to the press. Finally, the cassette tape represents all the incriminating records of the event.
The objects are common household items, except for the fact that they are old. They were found with other stuff that we don’t use anymore.
If I were to do this again, I would’ve done another topic. Watergate doesn’t cover a long period of time. I would rather do something that’s like the evolution of some technology over time.
My advice for people who will do this next year is that they should start early. Also, they should decide on a topic that’s interesting to them.

Bonan

Found Art Project - Watergate

Our group's project focused on the Watergate scandal and those involved. Some of the more famous people included President Nixon, Woodward and Bernstein, John Dean, the "plumbers", and Deep Throat.

Our items included a telephone, wrench, cassette tape, pictures, and quotes. The telephone is used to represent the conversations between Deep Throat (the informant) and Woodward (Washington Post). The phone can also be used for the phone calls done by the president with his staff. The wrench signifies the "plumbers" who broke into the Watergate complex to plant listening devices for spying on the Democratic party. The cassette tape represents the recorded conversations Nixon had in the Oval Office that revealed his part in the scandal, and his vigorous effort to keep them away from the public. Pieces of tape are cut off and strewn over the box we used to show the parts of the tape that were edited out, most likely by President Nixon. The pictures and quotes show people who had a major impact on the scandal or who made lasting remarks about Nixon's actions.

The telephone we used came from my own house (one we weren't using anymore). The wrench also came from my house, while the tape came from Bonan. The pieces of tape placed over the box came from a tape I brought. Both Bonan and I brought pictures, quotes, and articles related to Watergate.

If I were to do this project again, I would have tried to get more color or actual items to put on the box.

Advice I would give to next year's class is to not slack off and choose a topic interesting to that group.

-Andrew Hwang