A Better Life
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PHASE 1: INTERVIEW & RESEACH
“All I know is that my dad came here on a
— Pre-thesis age 5-20 year old Clara
“All I know is that my dad came here on a
boat and my mom came here by plane...”
— Pre-thesis age 5-20 year old Clara![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74782d324f612720012e564a8598df0cb3491792035490d4990a61214de61668/Screen-Shot-2019-08-02-at-12.42.53-PM.png)
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9/19/2016
PHASE 2: ART DIRECTION & SKETCHES
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EXHIBITION
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A Better Life
Purchase College Senior Thesis
Role: Art Direction, Illustration, Animation
Purchase College Senior Thesis
Role: Art Direction, Illustration, Animation
A Better Life is an 8-part series of cinemagraphs capturing my parents’ experiences as refugees from the Vietnam War after the fall of Saigon. My thesis tackled many personal Asian American experiences I wanted to address: A lack of dialogue between our family, a need for learning and understanding, a want to create a gift to my parents as per following the morals of the fillial piety and a look into the true sacrifices my parents made to give my brothers and I A Better Life as they left their homeland behind.