一条毕业生
Echo R.
Linocut print
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To me, the Bay Area is a place I feel at home for the first time, being of Chinese descent and having lived in rural America previously. The number of Asian students at UC Berkeley makes it so you’ll often hear Asian languages on the street. It’s comforting. The Chinese dragon in my linocut print is graduating from college, which represents the many Chinese students who have gotten the education needed for their futures right here in the Bay Area. The Chinese dragon is a concept thousands of years old, so its image carries the legacy and pride of Chinese people, who have been through civil wars and attempts at colonization, and were poor until rather recently. In America, especially for Chinese students, it’s seen as a threat for immigrants to get an education here and return to their countries. My artwork moves away from that narrative and into the truth that immigrants are as deserving of graduation as anyone else, and we should celebrate their success.
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Creativity means the mindset to take anything in the world and imagine something beyond it. It’s to look at the world in terms of possibility.
