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2022-05

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This series of paintings documents the development of learning about my family from an outsider’s perspective on the internet while searching for my identity and origins. As an international student of 10 years away from her parents, the family has become increasingly more distanced both physically and mentally. The distance and separation awaken the urge to grasp their existence around me. I am motivated to create a series of family portrait paintings. However, while identifying these paintings as portraits, they lack figurative representation and recognition. Starting with collecting photos of the family online and archiving shapes out of context from images. Then, I aim to create a composition of balance to fulfill my inner anxiousness. At the same time, visualize the relationship between parents and children with the challenge from unsettling paints. During this process of piecing together my abstract vocabularies for painting, I find myself letting go of the original narratives and exploring freely between the infinite possibilities.

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Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.

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MFA thesis, Painting, Art -- Family, Portraits -- Family

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http://hdl.handle.net/10829/24890

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Master of Fine Arts Thesis