Graphic Novels
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Days with the Elephant
2012
Days with the Elephant is about a squirrel traveling with an elephant. The little squirrel travels with “the elephant,” the gigantic, anonymous other. The physical differences between the little squirrel and the elephant have created a distance between them. During her travel with the elephant, the little squirrel experiments on many ways they interact with the elephant- different ways to play, communicate and participate in the elephant’s world.
The Museum
2013
In this work, I explore the relationship among social media, visitors, and the art museum gallery. In this comic story, a little squirrel performing as an avatar of an outsider identity walks into an art museum with a bunch of balloons that symbolize social media. The little squirrel engages the museum space by performing actions such as navigating the gallery space, climbing the stairs, and interacting with the artworks. This little squirrel embodies my perception of the museum experience and my attempt to make sense of social media’s capacity to disrupt cultural boundaries within the museum gallery. Carrying the social media balloons, the little squirrel is given agency to initiate a series of interactions with the cultural objects inside the museum galleries. While the carrying of balloons signifies being empowered with active agency, missing balloons suggests losing control, and the locating of the balloons represents coming to recognize an emergent relationship with the art museum.