For my Bridge 4 curatorial project, our theme was disguise and we focused on looking at China and its revolutionary period to combine other artworks to form a flow. This project links to my personal interest of exploring the personal identity when it comes to authenticity, and it links to Bridge 4 because disguise does not necessarily mean hiding oneself completely.

The images below were from the Bridge 1 project memoir and it was the most interesting topic for me as it allowed to explore themes within myself and convey it through different media. The links that we made through an object that we saw from the Met museum demonstrated the symbolisms that explained the foundational background of myself.

As for Bridge 2, I explored identities that were created by me, which we created a daughter of Donald Trump and made two instagram accounts where we explored her outer shell and her true inner identity. This was an interesting topic because it was quite difficult to create a person with no boundaries. I was quite lost because it was a very broad and it did not feel like Hailee was more authentic.

For Bridge 3, we chose a place of our choice to explore the symbolisms that represented that area in New York City and we chose Nolita because it had its very own essence that no other place could duplicate. For this project, although it was a place unlike other projects where we explored a person and its identity, I still thought it was relevant to finding the identity of the place. In groups we explored and chose a different symbol, one each, that represented the place and created wall papers, which I chose the lights and lamps. By finding a simple object to represent a whole idea was what I thought was very closely linked to the Bridge 1 project, where we found our own choice of any object in the museum and forming another meaning through a different object created by us. It thus allowed me to explore the duplication of identity, which again links back to the final project Bridge 4, and our theme of disguise because it explores the theme of identity and finding the true authentic one from the two.