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1 2-2 Project Proposal Lissette Hernandez Southern New Hampshire University Hum-100: Perspectives in the Humanities Professor Jacobs May 11, 2023

2 2-2 Project Proposal The cultural work I have chosen that is significant in my life is the caldero. A caldero is the Spanish term for a cauldron. Many people of all different backgrounds use calderos, but Puerto Rican households use them regularly. I have chosen to talk specifically about my great- grandmother’s caldero because it is 110+ years old and was passed down to me. I feel this specific caldero is a work of art made by my ancestors and has been used and passed down from generation to generation. The characteristic that stands out to me most is the outside of the caldero that was passed down to me. I can see that my caldero was used to cook in fires by the dark, burnt colors on it. It also has dents and spots where the dark, burnt color can’t be seen. I suspect this is from it being hit on things or dropped. I would expect layers to be peeling off from the many years of use, but instead, it is soft and smooth in feel. I do not expect that my great-grandmother intended to begin creating this art. The art on my caldero was unintentionally created while cooking for people. The caldero was then passed down to my grandmother, and then my mother and both continued to cook in it; they also continued to create the artwork it is today. I also cook in it now and hope the art continues to create itself so that one day, I can pass it down to one of my kids. Although my family did not intentionally make the artwork on my caldero, I do believe they were successful in providing meals to family and friends around them and while doing so, they were also successful in creating artwork on it as well. A cultural work from an unfamiliar culture is the cauldron. The value of studying cultural works from different cultures is that I am learning about something to have a better understanding of it. For example, for my cultural work, I wrote about the caldero that most Spanish families use. As I moved along to the next step of my assignment, I thought to myself,

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