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My homeland Taiwan is my inspiration. I used my fingerprint artwork to discuss my own identity. 'Fingerprints develop in the embryo before a baby is born. A person's fingerprints are formed when they are a tiny developing baby in their mother's womb. Pressure on the fingers from the baby touching and their surroundings create what are called fricition ridges' (University of California Santa Barbara UCSB Science Line, Undated.[Online] Available from: http:scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php? key=2650 [Accessed 3 June 2016]) Fingerprints are the memory between ourselves and our mothers. Therefore, our fingerprints have a strong connection with our mothers. Each person's fingerprints are unique, formed by interacting with the environment in their mother's womb. I used transparent glazing to remove my fingerprints in order to remove the evidence of myself from my ceramic surface, My fingerprints are the way of constructing my simple identity compared to the chaos of life and the notion of identity as complex layers. This represents the feeling of disappearing into the gap in between two cultures. For me, disappearing is a kind of beauty, which means I do not exist in any place. This is a digested process to help me feel better about living in the context of not belonging anywhere, either in Taiwan or Britain.
My homeland Taiwan is my inspiration. I used my fingerprint artwork to discuss my own identity. 'Fingerprints develop in the embryo before a baby is born. A person's fingerprints are formed when they are a tiny developing baby in their mother's womb. Pressure on the fingers from the baby touching and their surroundings create what are called fricition ridges' (University of California Santa Barbara UCSB Science Line, Undated.[Online] Available from: http:scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php? key=2650 [Accessed 3 June 2016]) Fingerprints are the memory between ourselves and our mothers. Therefore, our fingerprints have a strong connection with our mothers. Each person's fingerprints are unique, formed by interacting with the environment in their mother's womb. I used transparent glazing to remove my fingerprints in order to remove the evidence of myself from my ceramic surface, My fingerprints are the way of constructing my simple identity compared to the chaos of life and the notion of identity as complex layers. This represents the feeling of disappearing into the gap in between two cultures. For me, disappearing is a kind of beauty, which means I do not exist in any place. This is a digested process to help me feel better about living in the context of not belonging anywhere, either in Taiwan or Britain.
My homeland Taiwan is my inspiration. I used my fingerprint artwork to discuss my own identity. 'Fingerprints develop in the embryo before a baby is born. A person's fingerprints are formed when they are a tiny developing baby in their mother's womb. Pressure on the fingers from the baby touching and their surroundings create what are called fricition ridges' (University of California Santa Barbara UCSB Science Line, Undated.[Online] Available from: http:scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php? key=2650 [Accessed 3 June 2016]) Fingerprints are the memory between ourselves and our mothers. Therefore, our fingerprints have a strong connection with our mothers. Each person's fingerprints are unique, formed by interacting with the environment in their mother's womb. I used transparent glazing to remove my fingerprints in order to remove the evidence of myself from my ceramic surface, My fingerprints are the way of constructing my simple identity compared to the chaos of life and the notion of identity as complex layers. This represents the feeling of disappearing into the gap in between two cultures. For me, disappearing is a kind of beauty, which means I do not exist in any place. This is a digested process to help me feel better about living in the context of not belonging anywhere, either in Taiwan or Britain.
My homeland Taiwan is my inspiration. I used my fingerprint artwork to discuss my own identity. 'Fingerprints develop in the embryo before a baby is born. A person's fingerprints are formed when they are a tiny developing baby in their mother's womb. Pressure on the fingers from the baby touching and their surroundings create what are called fricition ridges' (University of California Santa Barbara UCSB Science Line, Undated.[Online] Available from: http:scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php? key=2650 [Accessed 3 June 2016]) Fingerprints are the memory between ourselves and our mothers. Therefore, our fingerprints have a strong connection with our mothers. Each person's fingerprints are unique, formed by interacting with the environment in their mother's womb. I used transparent glazing to remove my fingerprints in order to remove the evidence of myself from my ceramic surface, My fingerprints are the way of constructing my simple identity compared to the chaos of life and the notion of identity as complex layers. This represents the feeling of disappearing into the gap in between two cultures. For me, disappearing is a kind of beauty, which means I do not exist in any place. This is a digested process to help me feel better about living in the context of not belonging anywhere, either in Taiwan or Britain.
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Wen-Hsi Harman

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My homeland Taiwan is my inspiration. I used my fingerprint artwork to discuss my own identity. 'Fingerprints develop in the embryo before a baby is born. A person's fingerprints are formed when they are a tiny developing baby in their mother's womb. Pressure on the fingers from the baby touching and their surroundings create what are called fricition ridges' (University of California Santa Barbara UCSB Science Line, Undated.[Online] Available from: http:scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php? key=2650 [Accessed 3 June 2016]) Fingerprints are the memory between ourselves and our mothers. Therefore, our fingerprints have a strong connection with our mothers. Each person's fingerprints are unique, formed by interacting with the environment in their mother's womb. I used transparent glazing to remove my fingerprints in order to remove the evidence of myself from my ceramic surface, My fingerprints are the way of constructing my simple identity compared to the chaos of life and the notion of identity as complex layers. This represents the feeling of disappearing into the gap in between two cultures. For me, disappearing is a kind of beauty, which means I do not exist in any place. This is a digested process to help me feel better about living in the context of not belonging anywhere, either in Taiwan or Britain.

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Wen-Hsi Harman (1984- ) is a Taiwanese/British ceramic artist, based in Bristol, United Kingdom. I am also a member of the UNESCO-International Academy of Ceramic IAC , NCECA National Council on Education for the ceramic arts and Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS). My ceramic practice investigates the concept of ‘in-betweenness’ between Taiwan and Britain. Living away from my homeland gives me a clearer perspective of the culture in which I grew up. The cross-cultural experience provides a platform, from which I can address the questions of who I am and how I might express, and communicate my experience of in-betweenness as a place where I can survive - where I can draw breath to help me cope with the challenges of living in two cultures.

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