What the hell is really a ‘Sad Asian Girl’? There’s been no shortage of trailblazing art start-ups in current months.
By way of visually-led social platforms like Tumblr and Instagram, collectives can now tear within the ‘pale, male, stale’ guideline book for the industry and rewrite it; with battle activists just like the Art Hoes and fourth-wave feminists like Art Baby creating their particular type of imaginative revolution.
For RISD pupils Olivia Park and Esther Fan, however, there was nevertheless one group that is glaring omitted. Annoyed by the tired stereotyping and ignorant assumptions made about their Asian history, the graphics design duo chose to get together and alter the narrative. Continue reading