Category Studio Project: Identity Reconfigured

This piece shows the relationship between identity and academic burnout. The circles on the side show functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans starting with a scan of someone without mental illness and moving down to a scan of a… Continue Reading →

Pandas have been a significant part of my identity for as long as I can remember, I’ve woven them into my daily life through the clothing I wear, actions I aspire to take, and general decor so much that I’ve… Continue Reading →

To all the honors and ap/IB burnout kids, this one’s for you. I have struggled with the idea of failure being a good opportunity my whole life. I feel like I am constantly in fear of failure, even though that… Continue Reading →

I lost my mother this last year. I feel her and see her everywhere. Even though I’ve been through so much, I’ve never felt as “othered” in life and my own body as I have experiencing the pain that this… Continue Reading →

I don’t quite know what I look like or who I am anymore so I tried to line up the pictures of what I look like now with one of my favorite pictures of myself from when I liked how… Continue Reading →

I wanted to draw for the prompt and I did not want to directly tie myself to my drawings using figural representations of myself. Instead I wanted to use ‘stream of consciousness’ to try to make a portrait of my… Continue Reading →

We often face two very opposing paths in life, sometimes we take one path but we need to remember it’s ok to take both. We don’t have to separate two personas but instead create one. This exploits how conflicting two stereotypes can be.