Date of Award
Spring 6-3-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Rene Payne
Second Advisor
Ryan Waller
Third Advisor
David Kim
Abstract
Moving at the Speed of Trust is a workbook of strategies — practices, definitions, and techniques — to nurture community-building in support of inbetweeners who live between power structures and cultures and are often left out. Inbetweeners are those individuals whose lives are in transition through recent immigration or forced translocation from Asia to America.
These strategies revolve around threads of trust: kin, giggles, vulnerability, and shared experience. With these threads, we can question power. We can preserve stories, expand the ways we connect, shift perspectives on what is “standard,” and cultivate a community rooted in understanding. To understand each other’s core in these spaces means reclaiming what has been overlooked, bearing witness to the fact that our present experience is not the end, and manifesting a pluralistic future.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Sun Ho, "Moving at the Speed of Trust" (2023). Masters Theses. 1077.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1077
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Comments
View exhibition online: Sun Ho Lee, Moving at the Speed of Trust