The project, GODISAWOMAN, documented my experience of being detained at Gatwick Airport, London on the first day of the year 2012, due to the “unclear reason of visiting”. The title came from a drawing I found in a bible at the detention room. In the project, I combined images and text, narratively describing what happened during the 12 hours of detention, exploring and questioning the concept of nationality, border, identity and imperialism, unveiling the hidden judgment and connotation underneath the global social security system.During the detention, I was not allowed to take any pictures. In order to describe the story vividly, I have searched pictures on Google with “key words” related to the stories, and then applied the found images to the text.
