(Un)folding Myself (2016)

(Un)folding myself was a self-portrait installation in a studio art seminar room at my alma mator, Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, USA. The installation mainly comprised of printed paper and extended to a back room.

I love the intersection of photography and sculpture. I love overflowing images and layers that shift into different paradigms. That's really who I am at the core: a multilayered, mix-cultured being who loves to reach out to realms and experiences beyond my own.

The red paper I'm holding is a Korean print and the ocean perhaps represents my journey overseas to America and beyond. The scanned images of my hands holding, folding, and crumpling papers are a representation of how I explore and craft my own identity as I shift in between two cultures.

The installation overflowed to the room behind, where the floor housed a puddle of water stock images and folded paper boats. On the wall of this room were printed scans of my hands folding paper airplanes.