3.10 weekly report-Tingting

 

Last week I spent some time wandering around and searching for pieces from normal daily life. It is obvious that Chinese descendants display their identity strongly in spite of assimilation in the past. Language and religious signs from the images I captured always speak loud to me, I guess that's shared chinese identity. I hope to find ways to construct them and make a series. 

After reading the article "Thainess in today's modern world", I was thinking the struggle of both chinese in the past and Thai people at present time. From Stuart Hall, cultural identity has two sides: It is one shared culture , a sort of collective 'one true self' and it is a matter of 'becoming' as well as of 'being'. I am more interested in those changes and differences between my identity and chinese identity in contemporary Thailand mainly because I feel the difference even though I look like them. I hope to get more pictures that can be put together shows how things changed and unchanged during the time. For example, in my opinion, the two pictures above shows two shops, first one has been kept unchanged(the display). While the second one is kind of modern construction. TheThai religious statue, papers that stick on the glass, reflection of  those cars parking outside. It is a mix,or alternate identity(from the book of Chee Kiong Tong). 

In the next few weeks I want to keep doing this and hopefully will get a stronger sense about this. Also i want to try more ways to get resources and  to make use of them.