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Abstract
About the Artist:Monica Dolores Baza Katerina Teaiwa Monica Dolores Baza is of CHamoru and French-Canadian heritage and has a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Concordia University in Montreal. Her designs, drawings, paintings, and linoleum block prints are inspired by CHamoru material, visual, symbolic, and storytelling culture and the island environment of Guåhan (Guam). Baza was influenced by role models such as Filamore Palomo Alcon and Adriano Baza Pangelinan and credits her growth as an artist to participating in gatherings filled with robust discussions and constructive criticism of art practice and theory. She was one of nine founding members of the Chamorro Artists Association in 1987 and established Baza Designs that same year. In 1994 she collaborated with four others to found the Guam Gallery of Art. In 1995 Baza and her sister incorporated the expanding design business specializing in art cards, bags, t-shirts, and fine art. Click for larger view View full resolution Photo by Monica Dolores Baza Baza's block print Guåhan Pugua features on the cover of Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia, edited by Evelyn Flores and Emelihter Kihleng (University of Hawa'i Press, 2019). In his 2022 review of the book for the journal Native American and Indigenous Studies (9[2]: 129–230), Chadwick Allen praised Baza's cover as truly embodying the spirit of the stories, poetry, ideas, and arguments within the book's pages: "In Baza's rendering, the palm's sinuous trunk—black with yellow striations depicting older growth and hints of green depicting newer growth—rises from a band of … black earth into a blue sky alive with swirling wind that is simultaneously a blue sea alive with teeming fish" (129). All of Baza's works featured in this double issue are from 2016 and emit similar, abundant energies. They evoke deep layers of Island history, culture, land, sea, and sky through vibrant colors that we hope you can sense, even in the black-and-white version of this journal. Since the 2016 collection, Monica has taken time away from her arts profession to focus on caring for family. [End Page vii] Click for larger view View full resolution Tao Tao Latte, by Monica Dolores Baza, 2016. Block print, mixed media, 24 × 36 in. Photo by Victor Consaga. Permanent art collection of Matson Navigation Company, Inc. "Taotao" means "people" in the CHamoru language, while "latte" refers to limestone or basalt pillars and cup-shaped capitals or capstones that represent house supports from the time of the ancient people of the Mariana Islands who buried their dead between the stones. It is a contemporary symbol of CHamoru strength and identity. [End Page viii] Click for larger view View full resolution Full Moon Åmot Healing, by Monica D Baza, 2016. Block print, mixed media, 24 × 36 in. Photo by Victor Consaga. "Åmot" is the CHamoru word for medicine or medicinal plants. [End Page ix] Click for larger view View full resolution The Rebirth of Guåhan Oceania, by Monica D Baza, 2016. Block print, mixed media, 24 × 36 in. Photo by Victor Consaga. [End Page x] Click for larger view View full resolution Plumeria Strains I, by Monica D Baza, 2016. Block print, mixed media, 24 × 36 in. Photo by Victor Consaga. [End Page xi] Click for larger view View full resolution Guåhan Pugua, by Monica D Baza, 2016. Block print, mixed media, 24 × 36 in. Photo by Victor Consaga. This work is featured on the cover of Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia, edited by Evelyn Flores and Emelihter Kihleng (University of Hawai'i Press, 2019). "Pugua" is the CHamoru word for betel nut. [End Page xii] Click for larger view View full resolution Hibiscus Pictograph Pottery, by Monica D Baza, 2016. Acrylic lino-painting, 24 × 36 in. Photo by Victor Consaga. [End Page xiii] Copyright © 2024 University of Hawai'i Press
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.070 | 0.020 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".