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Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
Identity + Memory
Mingyuan Dong
Living House
​Cardboards, 10" x 10" x 16"
This interactive work consists of an abstract structure and an arrow-shaped finder (flashlight). Participants can use the finder to create shadows for the structure from different sides. Only at one angle could the shape of an abstract house appear on the wall. The work reveals the uncertainty of finding a living place and the difficulty of defining a living space in underprivileged areas. Furthermore, it evokes the economic and identity inequity people could experience in these areas.
* Note: ironically, the form of this sculpture was inspired by "Music of Love," the previous piece.
Digital Album
Acrylics, Paper, Wooden Frame, Digital Editing, 6" x 8" x 4"
I remembered an article about how using digital devices to save photos diminishes people’s memory. Because people lack the motivation to remember, they rely on those memory agents. My work is a device that retains memories just like an album. However, the device blurs the memories of those who use it. Relying on this device, people cannot retain sincere emotions and clear feelings for those around them. The album evokes the tendency of loss in a digitalized world.
Gloria Yang
Rainbow Night
Fine point pen and Procreate, 4.5 in*6 in
If the bright day is a fresh place of excitement and hope, then the darkness of the night is a suffocating silence and stability. More people are introspecting in the night, focusing on their own needs and energy. As Day enters the world of Night, the restless and changeable Day explores the mysterious darkness. It illuminates its path with its own light, and discovers an outlet filled with light, which is the unseen part of Night’s body. “Rainbow Night” meets four guardians of the night through the journey of Day in the form of comics. With the progress of science and technology, Chinese style involution culture is becoming more and more popular, and people are racing against time in the competition. There are some people who are full of enthusiasm, the pursuit of dreams and a strong sense of responsibility, with struggle to challenge the limits of life. They are like candles in the night, silently burning themselves, creating hope like stars. In addition to the story and interaction of the night guardians themselves, it is worth noting the healing signals in this space. There should be a balance between self and dedication, finding possibilities in the melodies and sweats of the night, and creating a rainbow.
Jack Hays
Clearings
Ink, graphite and coloured pencil, watercolour and collages on paper. 50 x 65 cm
This work explores how identities can transform - moods, emotions, and states of mind allow us to become completely different people. One can reform themselves and also their vision of themselves : through photocopying portraits, we can change our perceived identity whilst also exploring it more deeply.
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Karen Nicholson
UC Berkeley
Art Practice '22
Instagram: @karensartworld
https://karennicholsonart.portfoliobox.net
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Karen Nicholson
UC Berkeley
Art Practice '22
Instagram: @karensartworld
https://karennicholsonart.portfoliobox.net
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New Digital Age
Cardboard, hot glue, iPhone 7
28in x 10in
Inspired by both mechanical and biological structures, this piece sees a future where the digital and the physical become one. Presented in a series of square selfies, it emphasizes the impacts of social media on identity.
New Digital Age
Zoë Lane
Adult Programming: Wired In
Aluminum Wire, Zenith Space Command television, Zenith Space Command remote control, Zenith 4 Head Video Cassette Recorder, electricity. 48” W x 55” H x 38”(variable)
“Wired In” is part of an ongoing series titled “Adult Programming” which explores and questions the influences that shape us into who we are. This piece examines the passive reception of media and technology, and their often unquestioned (or questioned only in hindsight) roles in identity formation and projection. What we consume lives somewhere in the core of our being, and like yards of tangled wire, it can become all but impossible to neatly separate. In questioning which parts of ourselves are merely programmed and why, perhaps we can rewire our minds and bodies into more authentic projections of who we truly wanted to become. We hold the controls and we can change the channels. My work as a sculpture explores modes of becoming, with a particular focus on events, objects and technologies from the 1980s, ‘90s, and early 2000s. I aim to create pieces that are illuminating, thought-provoking, and even humorous — at times whimsically, and at other times darkly so. As I work, I think about the cycle present in my shaping these materials into physical expressions of what it means for a person to be shaped, and of what shaped me into a person who wants to shape things into those shapes, and so on, and so on…
