The sociopolitical issue I aimed to address was how America is shaped by people's perceptions. I was inspired by the final assignment of the Fluxus action instructions, as well as my own dreams. To explore this, I asked 30 people from diverse backgrounds, genders, and races to describe America in a single word. My inspiration didn't come from any specific artist, but rather from the Fluxus movement and its instructional pieces.
These three quotes influenced my creative thinking:
1. "For a white student, particularly a young white student, seeing the mode of expression of an artist of color can shift as much of their worldview as it does for a student of color."
2. "I don’t know what drove me to identify as an artist because it wasn’t within my familial background—not that I know of, anyway—and my only exposure to art, growing up in Queens, were the moments here and there when we visited the Queens Museum and the Metropolitan Museum."
3. "To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge — and, therefore, like power." — Susan Sontag, *On Photography.
Each of these quotes speaks to a different aspect of my creative journey. They push me to think deeply about the power of representation, how personal identity shapes art, and the complex relationship between what we create and how we see the world.
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