Using kids’ wire toys to amplify our categorical view on identity.
Having a mixed ancestral background makes it quite challenging to answer the question “Where are you from?” In our category-oriented society, we’re often only able to choose the one we align with more. In this web experience, I aimed to depict how today’s youth are breaking notions of racial and cultural identity. To tie the experience together, I landed on using child toys as a visual motif—as it reveals one of the earliest indicators in which we are taught to categorize.