For a long time, my work was a way to process the conflicts I experienced navigating my cultural identity. While... Read More
For a long time, my work was a way to process the conflicts I experienced navigating my cultural identity. While I am still exploring that, I wanted to shift the narrative away from fragmentation towards the desire for duality and balance. In The Middle Way, I am directly invoking the framework of Yin and Yang, with my figures positioned back to back and in contrasting colors, blue and white. Instead of viewing these two heritages as opposing forces, I aim to see them as complementary halves of a whole, highlighting the internal duality inherent in the mixed-race experience. This piece represents a personal breakthrough: the realization that the rigid structure society imposes is just a social construct, not an objective reality.
By naming the piece The Middle Way, I am hinting at the psychological freedom that comes when you finally release yourself from a rigid, one-sided perspective. To occupy the middle space is to refuse to conform to either extreme. By placing these figures back-to-back, the tension between blue and white becomes a site of peace and harmony rather than conflict, allowing me to reclaim the middle ground of mixed identity not as a place of alienation, but as a position of fluidity, balance, and wholeness.
