on IDENTITY THIS IS on IDENTITY

“25 F to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins.

SYNONYM is a world I built where people look like me and are essentially clones of each other. I want to reflect this through my models who were hand casted to visually morph in and out of the idea of me.

I want people to question if the models really look like me or if it is just another similar Asian boy. I was inspired by the imagery of space and the interpretation of the future which really drove the design and feeling of this collection.

They were familiar, but vaguely, reminded me of my childhood in China; something I had closed a long time ago when I arrived in the Midwest.