Identities are qualitative and quantitative.The construction of one's identities are a reciprocating process between one’s self and the specific social contexts. Identities are the result of the externalizations of internal reflection based on social interactions. As graphic designers, we are hired to create visual identities for people. So the questions lingering in my head are: what is identity? What is my identity? With my feeling of wandering growing up, I always find it difficult to clearly define my own identity.
Floating Identities is composed of three projects: an animated collage, a set of business cards, and a passport, which I explored the formations of my various personal identities through them. The animated collage unfolds my various identities through flashing photography. It shows how my physical attributes change as my perception and recognition of myself is evolving as I experience things in life. Business cards, as an interpersonal communicative tool, function as introduction of one’s self to others. It can be seen as the images one wishes others to perceive of oneself. By designing a series of business cards, I’m in control of how others perceive my identity. A passport is a proof of identity that can take you to travel from one place to another. This passport takes the audiences to travel through the various identities of mine. Unlike business cards where you present the role you wish people to know. Passport is mandated essential documentation of one self, but is it the true self?