As much as Benjamin may be obsessed with the issue of originality, I am equally obsessed with the issue of identity. I ended up making two different designs that explored the issue of identity. The first one involves the preposterous situations of tagging leaves. Having spent good chunks of my life in India and the United States, many of the ID numbers include significant dates in both their histories [as their contribution towards my identity. The second design includes the construction of the word "IDENTITY" by superimposing/aligning fingerprints, and then the word itself is superimposed on larger fingerprints. Since much of our formal identities involve the use of either alpha-numeric combinations or fingerprints, what happens when we choose to wear a t-shirt that addresses this idea? Are we reinforcing or challenging this formal identity?
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