This body of work is an insight on the teenage experience, with each work portraying a common but also uniquely personal teenage struggle. From juggling the pressure of academic excellence to struggling to find a sense of belonging among peers, the...
Process: Photoshop to compile photographs of myself with reference photos of milk, layers of acrylic to create transparency in the hair
Size: 20*24 inches
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Specific to my own experience as one of the only Chinese people in my Junior High, I use the metaphor of cereal to illustrate the constant weight of being the only. As an outcast, I resented living in my own skin. I was like a yellow cheerio floating lonely on a sea of white milk.
