“THIS IS PART OF ME”

Being ethnically mixed is a theme that I have never really encountered in contemporary art. As someone who is not only ethnically mixed but also has experiences a lot of different cultures, I wanted to make a piece that showed this theme visually and opened up this topic to a wider audience.

The four shoes and their footprints are representative of four people who have mixed Asian heritage. The surface illustrations on the shoes show the culture that comes through more prominently in their appearance and the illustrations in the footprints show the other half of their ethnicity mix which is not seen as clearly.