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Oberlin
Student
Class:
2001
Major:
English w/ concentration in Women's Studies, Visual Arts, Minor
in Religion
Home Town:
Brownsville, VT |
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Her Work |
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Artist's
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For me,
these seven photographs document the process of experiencing expectation.
Anticipating the problems associated with photographing the foreign
landscape, I went to Viet Nam with the intention of realizing my own
presence among the romanticized, the demonized, and the discursive.
I left America expecting to document the traces of my own history
in the landscape of Viet Nam.
Though the beautiful rice fields and women with conical hats were
still there, though one could find war remnants and moldy, dilapidated
colonial buildings underneath the new fancy hotels and the smoke of
zooming motorcycles, the landscape and the people of Viet Nam immediately
refuted the expectations I had of my own body and presence.
Just as complicated as history, my white skin, and my US dollar imposed
an identity on the landscape of Viet Nam. This identity juxtaposed
the past with the future; it anticipated more than it remembered.
My identity was tangible. I could feel it as I traveled just as I
could see the landscape behind me. And it was this identity, framed
by traversing expectation, that inspired me to document Viet Nam. |
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Photography
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