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Dear Stranger
Jasmine Shwu-fen Lee
TaiwanGALLERYCONVERSATION
I'm intrigued by the multi-cultural phenomena that I have observed ever since I arrived in America and the shifting sense of my existence.

Does the fact of being in between two places and being of another appearance generate a bicultural identity in me?

I asked myself: What does occidentals/oriental others, insiders/outsiders, belonging/non-belonging mean to me? Are identities fixed in a geographical place? One culture? This photographic series is a street portraiture project: Dear Stranger, in which I photographed young Asian women on the street in New York City and asked them to photograph me back in order to create mirror images.

In these mirror images, we, Asian young women, share certain psychological processes and emotional realities. My intention is to construct and articulate my personal sense of bicultural identity, as a way of illuminating the complexities of living a life in two worlds, a sense of displacement, the exhilaration of new experiences, confusion of cultural belonging, homesickness, unconscious adoption of new customs and later conscious acknowledgment of such changes. It is an effort and a process of finding and questioning of our collective consciousness.
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I believe that you need to identify the differences because you see the differences;we are alike only if we accept what we see in others;i believe we have selective memories and perception;the fact that you see differences mark a reason for you to write about them;I live my life on the contrary; I can't change what others' see; but I don't allow others to define me.
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If we share national and ethnic background, are we alike?
 
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