Special Projects

Dear Diary, This is My Gender Today

Master of Arts in Fashion Major Research Project that studied how arts-based “languages” of self-expression can illuminate one’s understanding of their gender identity, and culminated into a printed and digital zine featuring the extent of the project as executed in Winter 2024. Further instalments of the project are in progress.

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Character Development

Featuring digitally-rendered hand-drawn characters, this piece is an investigation into the elasticity of typography channeled through the use of the first character in my name, "美", meaning "beauty" in Japanese and Chinese. With each iteration drafted, I questioned the boundaries of language, typography, and art, curious as to where this illustration-based inquiry would take me, still ongoing. I invite viewers to openly interpret and imagine what new realities creative explorations of language can form.

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Who is My Outfit?

If you had to name your outfit, who would it be? A personal side-project and digital episodic series about personas we’re inspired to express when dressed in unique, extravagant outfits. (2023-)

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The Trans Agenda

From crew to models, an all-trans 2026 printed wall calendar & film photography project produced by Antel Kollenberg, Mia Yaguchi-Chow, and Katie Clarkest.

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we are the machine

Fourth-year undergrad capstone research project investigating the gaps (or lack thereof) between our online and offline identities from extensive social media use. (2021)

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