- Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner
I have been making things
for as long as I can remember. My first love has always been pen and paper. It provided me with concrete tools to build worlds and explore ideas that contrasted my physical reality.
As the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, we spent my early childhood years in constant motion through the Tri-State area. My father worked construction and flipped houses, and my mother built a career in healthcare and computer science. The product of this left brain/right brain binary, I shape shifted between these ways of being, seeing and thinking, as I struggled to make sense of my own identity in a world that was also constantly pressing me to fit into its own dimensions.
for as long as I can remember. My first love has always been pen and paper. It provided me with concrete tools to build worlds and explore ideas that contrasted my physical reality.
As the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, we spent my early childhood years in constant motion through the Tri-State area. My father worked construction and flipped houses, and my mother built a career in healthcare and computer science. The product of this left brain/right brain binary, I shape shifted between these ways of being, seeing and thinking, as I struggled to make sense of my own identity in a world that was also constantly pressing me to fit into its own dimensions.
My fascination with creating and experimenting with different mediums, has in many ways, also been a tool for survival, tapping into that human tendency for sense making. As I got older, I gravitated towards moving images and music and pursued film formally at Emerson College - much to the resistance of my family at the time as the ability to make a clear living from creative output seemed much less viable back then.
I have participated in and studied these shifts I’m attempting to explore with this passion project, both personally and professionally, for the last 15 years.
“Death Of The Day Job” represents the critical convergence point of these various movements. 2021 has been coined the year of “The Great Resignation” and I’ve been advocating for democratized creative expression since I’ve been making things, which I shared, is as long as I can remember.
My hope is that this project can be another tool in our shared and collective efforts of intentional sense making. If you have a story, stat or anything you think is worth sharing, I’d love to hear from you.
I have participated in and studied these shifts I’m attempting to explore with this passion project, both personally and professionally, for the last 15 years.
“Death Of The Day Job” represents the critical convergence point of these various movements. 2021 has been coined the year of “The Great Resignation” and I’ve been advocating for democratized creative expression since I’ve been making things, which I shared, is as long as I can remember.
My hope is that this project can be another tool in our shared and collective efforts of intentional sense making. If you have a story, stat or anything you think is worth sharing, I’d love to hear from you.