YOU DREW MY BODY, I DREW YOUR BODY
Hikari Tanaka
Between humans and society, space and the body, and between people, two layers of formless boundaries exist: an inner boundary and an outer boundary. The inner boundary surrounds the self, protecting and comforting oneself. The outer boundary, which this work focuses on, is drawn by others and often shaped by gender, sexuality, race, disability, social status, or appearance, frequently formed through assumptions rather than direct interaction. While sometimes functional, it is often discriminatory. Humans exist within spaces, wrapped in these boundaries, seeing and being seen by each other....Am I still myself in the way you drew me, and are you still yourself in the way I drew you?

YOU DREW MY BODY, I DREW YOUR BODY
Hikari Tanaka
Between humans and society, space and the body, and between people, two layers of formless boundaries exist: an inner boundary and an outer boundary. The inner boundary surrounds the self, protecting and comforting oneself. The outer boundary, which this work focuses on, is drawn by others and often shaped by gender, sexuality, race, disability, social status, or appearance, frequently formed through assumptions rather than direct interaction. While sometimes functional, it is often discriminatory. Humans exist within spaces, wrapped in these boundaries, seeing and being seen by each other....Am I still myself in the way you drew me, and are you still yourself in the way I drew you?
