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Rooted in lived experiences of growing up mixed-race, the work examines belonging, community, and internal conflict, while showing identity as shifting, distorted, lost, and transformed through time, place, and representation. The artist translates emotions and fears into visual extensions, portraying the portrait as glitching, shedding, drowning, and re-emerging. The framework draws on Stuart Hall’s view of identity as constructed, fluid, and relational.","liminal embrace  \nShae Behari-Leak  \n2025  \nBetween presence and absence, I exist. My image fractures and reforms. Light bends and my identity blurs. The self becomes a shifting reflection.  \nPraxis  \nThroughout my journey as an artist, I have grown and learnt valuable lessons about the process of creation. Upon each new project, I have utilised them to creatively express my personal story. I can look back over the past few years and reflect on my work, and the key themes that flow throughout, revolve around identity and the self. My practice thus far has been focused on identity, mine and others’, and a sense of connected ness. I explore different forms of identity, and the self, expressing how identity is ever-changing, distorted, lost and transformed.  \nGrowing up mixed-race, I have had to face the battle of belonging and understanding the hybridity of my identity. The internal battle I face is the sense of belonging; to others, a sense of community, or to myself. The continual internal conflict and journey with myself as to w ho I really am. Throughout my life, I have changed and morphed into different versions, characters, roles and ways of being, having to code-switch in the different realms of my life. An actor playing different roles, each fighting for center stage to be seen and to belong. As I have changed, it has become easier to lose sight of who I am at the core. I have lost myself, and at times become an unrecognisable being in my own eyes.  \nMy praxis at Michaelis has been a deeply personal one, taking aspects of my identity and materialising the feelings and states that I have been in. Transforming my emotions, inner fears and battles into visual extensions of myself.  \nMy work is about how I perceive the distortion of identity. This is a photographic and videographic exploration of the fragmented self, exploring the ways in which my identity changes, is obscured, lost and transformed. I focus on finding a visual language to express the internal conflict between the different versions of myself. My lived experience is t hat I find myself lost at times, not knowing who the real me is. I represent this visually as my portrait is glitching, shedding, drowning, shifting and emerging. An unrecognisable being, constantly flowing into her next embodiment.  \nI investigate the birth and death of the different versions of myself, the mourning and the regeneration. My distortion is both wound and evolution.  \nIdentity is a process and is not a fixed essence. As a framework, I s hall be using Stuart Hall’s essay, Cultural Identity and Diaspora (1990) . Hall rejects the idea that identity is a stable, authentic essence we are born with. Instead, he argues that identity is constructed, as it is made through history, culture, and representation. Hall argues that it is fluid, as it is always changing, depending on time, place and context. Identity is relational, as it is formed in relation to others and never in isolation ( Hall, 1990) .  \nHall insists that identity is not singular, but fragmented, as we all have multiple identities; race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality; and how these sometimes conflict. Hall expresses how identity can be distorted, layered, or re-constructed. 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