Tribes and such…

soo… I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of belonging, knowing, tradition, history and culture; mostly the idea of belonging. I started to really think about myself and how I fit into the world. I guess more specifically how my family and I fit into the country we live. There always seems to be this emptiness when I think about our history and where we come from, even after doing a dna test and see the results on paper I still felt stuck in a void where I don’t feel an emotional attachment to the places where a test says I belong. After thinking on it more I realized its because I know nothing of these places or people and a sense of loss overwhelmed me. I then circled back to the concept of belonging which led me to the idea of tribes. So I began to research a bit…

And I landed on the idea of a lost tribe. To me this idea of a lost tribe expressed exactly how I was feeling. With that in mind I decided to start with myself and incorporate different pieces of tribes and traditions into a self portrait…