Make Your Honey is an animated narrative reflecting on the intimate nature of mother and daughter relationships. Though it exists in an innately complicated yet loving milieu, the nature of the of relationship is one that sets the foundations for societal relations for the daughter. As the first generation American of an immigrant daughter, it is commonly found to be difficult to identify as one nationality or the other, or both. Many children of diaspora would attest to the constant uncertainty in identity. What remains consistent is the values and traits shared between the identity of the mother and identity of the daughter. In this final project, it is far from just a short diegesis of acquiring jewelry, but rather the experimentation of performance art and the innate control of time in video.
First done with recordings of performing each action, then broken up frame by frame to contour the subjects. The act of putting the rings on, which appeared first together, branch out on to two different hands, much like the timeline of living under one roof, growing up in the childhood home, followed by a clear separation in their paths. Where there is tension in an attempt to slide the ring on, there is hesitation. The recording of a phone call alludes to distance in between, and the acoustic melody in the background is one that brings the two together. The original message from mother to daughter serves as a reminder of the history and hard work that had to be done in order for the opportunities that were made available for the latter.
Perfect in time for Mother’s day, the animation can be viewed here:
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