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It still hits me at the least expected moments.

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Imported Goods, 2023.

A set of photographs I made in the end of 2023 out of survival mode to very honest. I have just restored my study permit two weeks before Christmas break started and needed to produce something quickly. I chose bananas as my subjects as they are one of the fruits that bear cultural and economic significance to Taiwanese. To look at these as self-portraits is probably more appropriate than ever, though I haven't found the words for it because I'm currently behind on other assignments. But I've been thinking about how "shelf-life" is being interpreted when we discuss women's physical youth as well as the fact that banana as a tropical fruit that is often taken for granted, which mirrors the position that our women in the homeland have been put into as well as the ones in the diaspora.

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Self-portrait, 2023. From my series In Bed with My Dreams and Delusions.

View the series here: https://www.yushengchiu.com/in-bed-with-my-dreams-and-delusions-2023

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Pier-2 Art Centre, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, 2022, 120 Fuji Pro400H.

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Self-portrait, 2024. 4x5 Ilford HP5.

As I came back on here to clean up years worth of digital footprints (in my defense I was "learning English" by doing so), I was reminded of how hopelessly romantic I envisioned myself to become. 15-year-old me would be both saddened and flabbergasted on my character developments thus far, but I hope she is going to feel relieved that she has remained the centre of her universe all along.

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2025.