Fine Art Portfolio
Projects
So You Believed (So, You Believed)
Undergraduate Senior Thesis, 2022So You Believed is a conceptual series of photographs taken and sequenced Bonnie Deyang. It describes her experience of what it felt like to be a part of the evangelical Christian culture, as a Chinese-American, in the Bible Belt of the United States. This body of work poetically discusses the intersection of race, religion, and Southern culture using repeated images of (white) fences, rural landscapes, and wide angles as symbols to demonstrate the distance between them and what they were told to be a part of. The question that remains for the artist is “Are you in, or will you stay out?”
Sweetie, 2022-2024
Sweetie is a handmade book by Bonnie Deyang that is a personal account of her adoption and journey to the United States. It’s a visual study of politics, family, and race and their roles in interracial adoption. It’s a true story that demonstrates how their convergence took place: a decision that changed the lives of two women. Both are grieving the loss of a family member but gain another. This book uses excerpts, archived family photos, and documentation of the adoption to provoke a larger conversation about what comes with being an adoptee and international adoption.
This book was revised in 2024, new documentation will be online soon.
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