[STEPHANIE SYJUCO] If we're to look at the complexity of our contemporary culture,
our political moment,
our lived realities--
I want my work to be as complicated as well.
That there isn't just one way to look at it--
depending on your perspective, you'll see it a different way.
And I also wanted to inhabit contradictions.
--Alright, fierce.
And so, looking at images of protest,
we created these composite characters.
And so they're fictions.
Black-clad individuals are usually associated with a very direct action.
Is it a character that one finds problematic
or is it something that might elicit even some empathy?