[ Adoption Art ]

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Originally I was very resistent to the idea that adoption ever affected me. I believed that only I could determined my future and my past had no bearing on who I was in the present. It wasn’t until my early 20′s that I started to realise that I may have been wrong and it wasn’t as black & white as I thought, that in fact being transracially adopted was part of what shaped me. To deny that was to deny who I am.

Adoption has become the main focus of my practice. This section is a sample of the contemporary work I have done about adoption. While adoption is a very personal issue, where I often place myself in the work, I feel that my work does go beyond pure autobiography. My work explores the very ideas of that constitutes a family, race, identity and diaspora.

One of the stumbling blocks I have faced is that up until 2008, I only had my own point of view and felt that my work was becoming stagnate. I have actively been seeking & connecting with other adoptees and others in the adoption communities. While my contemporary practice is on hold for a while, my understanding of the complexity of adoption with it’s many facets and perspectives grows daily as do my ideas for new work.