I was fascinated by transparency, layers, and light during my senior thesis. There's something about the three qualities that evoke nostalgia. I experienced many new things in college and I explored and reflected on them through these layers.
University of Pennsylvania, 2015-2019
I made some art in college and I really loved it. Here are a few of my favorites!
I was fascinated by transparency, layers, and light during my senior thesis. There's something about the three qualities that evoke nostalgia. I experienced many new things in college and I explored and reflected on them through these layers.
In 2019, I got the chance to go to Tokyo, Japan to make a body of photographic work.
My artist statement for the exhibition:
After wandering around Tokyo, I noticed the awkward, suffocating spaces in between many buildings.
After spending time with and photographing those spaces, I began inverting my impressions.
Those spaces slowly became breathing spaces, and a small window into life beyond my current location, a look into another space of the city.
I started to smile when I saw those quiet, uninhabited spaces tucked away amidst the hectic city – discovering Tokyo in a new light.
In my photography class, I explored alternatives to image-making beyond taking photos. I found Google street view. And I created so many portraits of people in so many places. Just hours of searching around and looking for people looking at the camera.
After getting countless rejections in college, I made a zine about how to write one as a coping mechanism and as a way to move past them and keep persevering. Here's a digital version: Rejection email generator.
I made a zine series about the iconic anime, Naruto. This one is about Sakura, understandably dismissed for annoyance, but comes through in the end. Lots of mixed feelings here. My professor sold a few copies at her artist bookstore in Philadelphia: Ulises.