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09/30/2010
03/01/2010
08/21/2009
Assumed Identity series
This body of work is titled "Assumed Identity" and consists of mixed media and photo-based images which explore autobiographic issues related to my adoption from Korea by my American caucasian parents and the relationship between my cross-cultural adoption and my experience as an Asian American.
Like Asian Americans born in the United States, Asian American adoptees experience almost total immersion in American culture. But in a multi-cultural society increasingly concerrned with developing pride in one's ethnic heritage, cross-cultural adoptees broken link to their past culture via ancestry and tradition sometimes create a web of contradiction and confusion regarding identity.
Some of the works explore the loss of ethnic culture and genetic links using grids to fragment my past; while others use grids to blend together family photographs which document the love and attention that I have received throughout my life. These images of a loving home environment are juxtaposed with images showing my conflicting feelinns in a perceived societal pressures to reconnect ties to the country of my birth and to my birth mother, and the frustration of being assumed a recent immigrant based on my ethnic heritage.
See more images here:
Assumed Identity series
This body of work is titled "Assumed Identity" and consists of mixed media and photo-based images which explore autobiographic issues related to my adoption from Korea by my American caucasian parents and the relationship between my cross-cultural adoption and my experience as an Asian American.
Like Asian Americans born in the United States, Asian American adoptees experience almost total immersion in American culture. But in a multi-cultural society increasingly concerrned with developing pride in one's ethnic heritage, cross-cultural adoptees broken link to their past culture via ancestry and tradition sometimes create a web of contradiction and confusion regarding identity.
Some of the works explore the loss of ethnic culture and genetic links using grids to fragment my past; while others use grids to blend together family photographs which document the love and attention that I have received throughout my life. These images of a loving home environment are juxtaposed with images showing my conflicting feelinns in a perceived societal pressures to reconnect ties to the country of my birth and to my birth mother, and the frustration of being assumed a recent immigrant based on my ethnic heritage.
See more images here:
Assumed Identity series
This body of work is titled "Assumed Identity" and consists of mixed media and photo-based images which explore autobiographic issues related to my adoption from Korea by my American caucasian parents and the relationship between my cross-cultural adoption and my experience as an Asian American.
Like Asian Americans born in the United States, Asian American adoptees experience almost total immersion in American culture. But in a multi-cultural society increasingly concerrned with developing pride in one's ethnic heritage, cross-cultural adoptees broken link to their past culture via ancestry and tradition sometimes create a web of contradiction and confusion regarding identity.
Some of the works explore the loss of ethnic culture and genetic links using grids to fragment my past; while others use grids to blend together family photographs which document the love and attention that I have received throughout my life. These images of a loving home environment are juxtaposed with images showing my conflicting feelinns in a perceived societal pressures to reconnect ties to the country of my birth and to my birth mother, and the frustration of being assumed a recent immigrant based on my ethnic heritage.
See more images here:
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