Personal Geographies: (Re) Imagining Paths of a Diasporic Existence

My MFA thesis project was an autoethnographic craft exploration on themes of colonialisms, migration and belonging. Taking a dialectical approach to deconstructing meanings embedded in objects of material culture, it examined the holistic creation and embodiment of the conceptual and material knowledge of my Black diasporic immigrant experience into objects that renegotiate my relationship between multiple colonized spaces.
Combining traditional craft, digital design, and fabrication, it deconstructs ascribed meanings of identity through a lens of material culture and drafts a chosen path of spaces of self-determination.

Images by Chelsea Yang-Smith.