I chose a topic that I can relate with. I figured that it would be easier to choose a topic to do something especially art wise when you are closely connected with the subject. Being closely connected to a subject when doing art I feel will make the execution of the art louder, and better!
The social issue I chose was pertaining to adoptee's lashing out at their adoptive parents. The people who are doing the lashing out are more college adoptee's from Korea. Yes, there is a whole social controversy on adoption all in itself, but I decided to narrow the topic down, and focus on this part.
I notice my mother rant about how upset she is to hear this from adoptee's, but I understand where they are coming from in some ways or another.
The adoptee's are agitated at the fact that their birth parents gave them up for a "better life", which I have no doubt in that that is true, but also from what I've read is that, the adoptive parents completely took the adoptee's out of their homeland and stripped them of their heritage, and culture. I also understand that there is only so much an adoptive parent can do to 'submerge' them [as children] into their culture without going to their homeland all together.
To demonstrate this issue, or rather the feeling of not knowing yourself when it feels like everyone else around you knows where they are from, and their personal family history.
I created a page from my visual journal that took up two pages with just definitions, quotes and explanations from different pieces of literature, and wrote in sharpie; "how do you define yourself?"
The social issue I chose was pertaining to adoptee's lashing out at their adoptive parents. The people who are doing the lashing out are more college adoptee's from Korea. Yes, there is a whole social controversy on adoption all in itself, but I decided to narrow the topic down, and focus on this part.
I notice my mother rant about how upset she is to hear this from adoptee's, but I understand where they are coming from in some ways or another.
The adoptee's are agitated at the fact that their birth parents gave them up for a "better life", which I have no doubt in that that is true, but also from what I've read is that, the adoptive parents completely took the adoptee's out of their homeland and stripped them of their heritage, and culture. I also understand that there is only so much an adoptive parent can do to 'submerge' them [as children] into their culture without going to their homeland all together.
To demonstrate this issue, or rather the feeling of not knowing yourself when it feels like everyone else around you knows where they are from, and their personal family history.
I created a page from my visual journal that took up two pages with just definitions, quotes and explanations from different pieces of literature, and wrote in sharpie; "how do you define yourself?"