Completed December 2019

This past semester as a freshman at Harvard College, I took Drawing II: Model Witness with Katarina Burin. We each chose a research topic that we looked into over the semester, and it eventually culminated in a final showcase in mid-December. I chose to focus on consumer psychology and market identity, particularly how big businesses can influence almost every aspect of one's shopping experience. This interest was born out of my own interest in particularly the booming supermarket and the fast fashion culture. My goal was to make all four projects cohesive by the end. I made everything by hand, from the print on the t-shirts to the paper objects on the shelves (which I also made myself). My hope is that in making this project, I have opened the eyes of the viewers to the scripted world we often find ourselves in, and even immersed in it first-hand as well—during open studios, I set up a system so that my iPad acted like a surveillance camera and viewers could see themselves being live-recorded on screen.