Topic: Means of Identity
Inkjet Print in Wax (11" x 17"), 2007.
Initially, when considering the theme of cultural migration, belonging & settlement I had to ask myself: How do I identify myself? How do I identify myself culturally? What is my society, who is my community? What has changed for me since I’ve left my home, family & native culture behind to come to New Zealand? Essentially, in coming to New Zealand, I realised that I could shape my immediate world, deciding what elements of my way of being I wanted to keep, what beliefs I wanted to cast aside. This lead me to become aware that we live in a fluid world and much of the things we believe about ourselves are only true while we believe them.
How do we identify a person at their most basic level, when everything else has been stripped away? How am I anchored in my world?
