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In my work, I borrow visual elements form the history of art. The joining of borrowed multicultural sources acts as a metaphor for contemporary hybrid culture. Living in a highly visual culture, we have become familiar to non-native images. When images and ideas from one culture are transported into another, they are inevitably changed, especially when original meanings are inaccessible. What they come to mean is what we want them to be because they are filtered through our own perceptions. Cross-fertilization of ideas through multicultural interactions brings new influences in a hybrid culture.

A donkey often has conflicting associations from a political icon, to signifying ignorance, to hard working, to gentle, or stubborn. This pluralistic representation is at the core of our multifarious culture. The innocence represented through a children’s toy reflects the malleability of our culture through commercialization and how society influences and molds us to be seen certain ways.