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Greed
Wrath
Envy

This project consists of a collection of digital drawings aimed at examining ethnic identities through popular stereotypes that perniciously pervade societies on a transnational level. The works are informed by the infamous Seven Sins, a Christian classification system of vices depicting aesthetic and moral failings, which happen to coincide with lenses through which minority groups are frequently depicted. The objective of this project is to visualize the ways in which threatening misconceptions of certain ethnic groups function as catalysts for blurring and alienating certain cultures and histories. The focus of this collection is directed at seven common tropes used to describe people of color: Pride, wrath, gluttony, lust, greed, envy, and sloth. Concepts and symbols chosen to be represented in these illustrations largely derive from critical conversations about the representation of “otherness” within and across literature, film, art and news media. The images presented aim to invoke further examination of the threat and production of historical and contemporary issues regarding model minorities, Yellow Peril, cultural consumption, exoticism, discrimination, fragmented identities and beyond.

 

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“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon, you see yourself.”

Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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