Exploration of 3D modeling of characters.

What if we quit spending time and energy on seeking the differences between us? What if we focus on working together to share the best of ourselves in our communities? What if we remember our condition of temporary living beings in constant growth? We are still in an early stage of transformation where the chrysalis contains us as one to evolve. Life is simpler than we think… but we always make it complicated…

Despite living in a world of technological advances and social changes, we still carry old roles that confront and confuse women between their identity and the imposed one. The Beginning of the End is the materialization of my annoyance towards what society expects of me as a woman. I chose household cleaning items, baby essentials, and graduation regalia that speaks to my inner struggle and dreams. The arrangement of the elements wrapped defies their natural balance of themselves. Through these elements, I seek nothing more than to redeem myself.

Currently, we live in a world where technology is part of our days entirely. Since the boom of the internet, we started to adapt our lives to this new highway of information, applications, social media, etc. I chose the cross because it is a symbol in our society of spirituality and any religion. I added the cellphone in the center to portray the change that humanity is going through. If we focus on the past, the search for going higher on the path of spirituality was one of the goals for societies. These new generations are almost born with a cell phone in hand. They may mix or lose the idea of virtuality, reality, human interaction, and spirituality. “The constant evolution as well as progress, without spiritual advancement, is nothing more than a Möbius strip that leads nowhere, perhaps…” Hsin-Shien Huang

Yin and Yang are the two forces that interact as a duality in the universe. This is a representational form of the benevolent force and the dark force. The two hands are in eternal conflict. I see the imperfection of the evil hand as corrosion. The hand of goodness has missing parts and lumps because of its regeneration, like the Phoenix.  I used the symbol of peace, and on the other hand is disrupting the peace by being violent and irrational. This piece reminds me of Martin Luther King Jr. peaceful protest and how police reacted violently. I also think of the Capitol Insurrection, where thousands of “patriots'' showed how the masses can be lethal and dangerous to peaceful communities. We live in times where social changes must be made. There is a fragile balance between these forces. The question is which force will dominate?

2020 was a year that shook the world, erasing the life we knew before. Social conflicts flared up, and racism took its worst face through police officers. The death of George Floyd reopened the deep wound that minority communities suffer under the ideology of white supremacy.