We are living in a world of consumption. I composed these images to expose the way that capitalism in the United States permeates every facet of our lives. We live in a consumer society. We are consumers, but we are also consumed. We think of ourselves and our world, even our homes, in terms of value. Everything has a price. We are loved for what we have, and for what we produce. Everything we see is colored by material value. The projections represent this overwhelming miasma of everyday life in a capitalist society. The sense of living in a world where we are constantly forced to be at attention to the need to be better consumers lest we become consumed in the race.

        I grew up in a culture that was traditionally communist, but has gradually begun to embrace capitalist systems as a way to bolster what was a weak economy. However, culturally China is still very different, and I feel that my time in America has pulled me into a way of viewing the world around me that I never experienced in China.