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Senior Design Show - May 2004

Image of work by Vu Le

Vu Le
Asian Exploitation
Fall 2003

Chinese tattoos and artifacts have grown more and more popular over the past few years, where every American teen, college student, or person, can instantly become more "cultured" by having the word "strength" tattooed or displayed in their home in the form of a Chinese character. However, what happens to the meaning of a character or word, when the wearer or even the audience only knows the meaning by what they are told it means. For instance, the UT football fan who believes he's wearing the chinese character "longhorn" on his hat, when the character actually says "cow". And so, I created faux Chinese characters created from english characters that actually read derogatory messages.