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Perhaps because I’ve been living far away from my mother tone for years, I pay attention to non-verbal communication even more. I’ve been particularly interested in one term: Mirroring. Mirroring is people adopt similar body postures. They do this unconsciously as part of a natural body display of companionship. Imitating exist widely in daily life, also seen a lot from kid’s instinct of learning. Mirroring, is more of passive and unintentional, while a similar action mimicking is with intention. I decided to mimic strangers' gestures on various locations and daily life based context, and take photographs to document the mirroring performance of mine. My intention here is to articulate the process of a foreigner/immigrant trying to adopt life style, culture, and eventually forming new identity of oneself, as a response to my own personal experience of “inbetweeness” and “stateless”. Genral: Performative ducomentary.
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