Selfhood

What makes you, you and me, me? Is there an identifying ‘red’ thread to one’s identity? Maybe. Then again, the identity we embody—our ethnicity, our cultural background, our language, to name a few—is different from the identities—plural—that we project; for instance, our choice of clothes, how we wear our hair, the neighborhood we live in, our hobbies, our professions, and so much more. These non-DNA related attributes, if I may call them that, change over time. Trends influence our public identities, so does our age, among other things, which means that our selfhood is in a constant state of flux. We no sooner pin down who we think we are that it begins to unravel. As a designer and a handcraft artist, I combine the tools, materials, and production methods of both practices to communicate meaning. In the end, questioning our identity is ongoing, something so simple yet so unpleasant because one could not be satisfied with the temporary result.