Category Studio Project: Identity Reconfigured
I used a digital manipulation technique to depict my identity in a fractured state. The stresses of college have me directing my attention in so many different places at the same time, it can be hard to feel secure in… Continue Reading →
I tried to capture a transitional effect in my composition. I chose this composition to portray the disconnected feeling I have been experiencing lately. The transitional effect is also symbolic of the transitional place I have found while in college.
When I think of my identity and who I am, the first thing that comes to mind is the people I surround myself with. I think that without the people around me, I wouldn’t be who I am today.
In this piece, is image of myself that is overlapped with a collage of many important people and places in my life. I feel that a lot of who I am is influenced by my community and those around me… Continue Reading →
My identity based off society. Since I am Asian, I must be Chinese by default. Since I am Asian, I must have covid and I must be to blame for covid. Since I am Asian, I can be sexualized like kpop idols. Since I am Asian, that must be all that I am. In reality I am just a regular guy that is tired of this bullshit and just likes to lift weights and go fishing.
This piece shows two of the main struggles a student such as myself faces when trying to progress in academics. Its all a tightrope walk to graduation all while thoughts about increasing sums of loans and social aspects of life make it extremely hard to walk that rope, and in many cases we fall. The question is how many times do we fall and finally decide its time to give up.