SPRING // ISSUE #4
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Growing up in white suburbia in an adoptive family, I always felt stuck in-between. As an adoptee I am physically at odds with my parents but culturally out of touch with my Korean heritage. These photographs attempt to illustrate and decipher my dealings with the Transracial Adoption Paradox, which concerns conflicting feelings about identity within an adoptee coming from a minority culture into Caucasian families. Thus began an investigation of my parents and the place we call home despite our ethnic differences. It deals with the exploration of a suburban space; its inhabitants, and my own navigation of this liminal space—both physically and psychologically.
In the last five years, my mother’s father has lost the last of his elevent siblings. It is a considerably smaller and sadder event than I remember. When a montage of our long lost relatives in Italy starts playing on the projector, all I can think about it how sad that plant in the corner is.
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