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04. How do we express our past family traumas through art?


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Mi Chen, also known as Stella, is a Communication Design student at Parsons School of Design. Her thesis topic explores the question, "How does our traumatic experience with our family-of-origin impact our adulthood?" She approached this question in two different ways. First, she did a short film consists of video interviews with Chinese students and asked them about their past family traumas. Second, she designed a virtual exhibition showcasing different traumatic experiences that happened in multiple places in her house. Each traumatic experience is expressed through a form of digital art. In this episode, we talked about how to express our deepest and darkest emotions through art, which is something I have never done before, and how creating art or films can give us some sort of closure.

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Work in ProgressBy Karissa Munaf

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